proxy acct records best practices

[TR Missner]

Sorry I wasn't more clear.I am not using 1.x but most of the documentation
refers to how things were done in 1.x and because of this means nothing to
me.
I am not using syslog.
Accounting packets are being written to disk using the detail function.
Then I am shipping them off to the other radius by setting the listen object
on the detail file.
Even with load_factor set to 100 the speed at which the detail is read is
very slow.
There are some notes in the copy-acct-to-home-server example that talk about
automatic throttling of the reads depending on the backend. This is what led
me to question latency.

Is there any way to speed up the reading and shipping of acct records to
another FR instance?

Thanks again.

TR

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com>wrote:

> TR Missner wrote:
> > I am a new user of freeradius ( no experience with the 1.x version at all
> ).
>
>   Don't use 1.x.  Use the latest version.
>
> > I am in the process of setting up radius for accounting of voip records.
> > Due to the nature of my system blocking must be avoided at all costs.
> > With this in mind I have configure FR to write accounting records
> > locally to a file then I have the records proxied to a remote freeradius
> > instance where the  records are written to a database.
> > My question revolves around best practices and speed.
> > Reading and shipping the records off box is very slow ( somewhere around
> > 5 - 10 records per second ).
>
>   You've configured the server to use syslog.  Don't.  Syslog on some
> systems is limited to 5-10 log entries per second.  This is because it
> syncs the logs to disk after each line of text.
>
> > I believe this may be caused by the latency between the proxy and the
> > master which is around 150ms.
>
>   No.
>
> > Of course I could just insert the records in the DB across the WAN but
> > am not sure whether this would be any faster.
> > I'm convinced latency is the issue because even when I turn off the
> > databasing of records on the master and only write to flat files the
> > speed remains in the same range.
>
>   syslog.
>
>  Alan DeKok.
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