Freeradius and memory usage

[Roy Kartadinata]

An update on this issue, I was finally able to split the detail file log
into hourly by adding another entry to modules/detail.log file. So far
the memory usage is still increasing but in a much slower rate.

Marinko Tarlac wrote:
> Maybe detail file is to large ?
> 
> I had a similar problem when server goes off because of this...


How did you fix your issue?


> 
> Alan DeKok wrote:
>> Roy Kartadinata wrote:
>>> I didn't see any error on error log, it looks clean. But this is
>>> what the log looks like when it started to run out of memory the
>>> other night: 
>>> 
>>> Wed Jul 22 22:03:42 2009 : Error: Rejecting request 16183416 due to
>>> lack of any response from home server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 1813 Wed
>>> Jul 22 22:03:42 2009 : Error: Rejecting request 16183418 due to lack
>>> of any response from home server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 1813 Wed Jul
>>> 22 22:03:42 2009 : Error: Rejecting request 16183420 due to lack of
>>> any response from home server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 1813 Wed Jul 22
>>> 22:03:42 2009 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child for request
>>> 16183422, in module detail component pre-proxy
>> 
>>   Ok... so it's blocked writing to the detail file.
>> 
>>> Wed Jul 22 22:03:42 2009 : Error: Rejecting request 16183423 due to
>>> lack of any response from home server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 1813 Wed
>>> Jul 22 22:03:42 2009 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child for
>>> request 16183425, in module  component pre-proxy
>> 
>>   Module "" means "server core".
>> 
>>   That's weird...
>> 
>>   Is the detail file on an NFS mount?  It really shouldn't block
>> writing to the detail file unless the underlying file system goes
>> away. 
>> 
>>> And radius eventually died few seconds later. During all these, the
>>> memory usage was at around 75% but authentication which we don't
>>> proxy continued to work.
>> 
>>   Because it's going crazy, and dying...
>> 
>>   Alan DeKok.
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Cheers,

Roy Kartadinata