Radius and performance

[tnt at kalik.net]

>It's a question to all members of freeradius community :) I'm going to use
>freeradius in my billing system. That's why i'd like to know, what is the
>maximum loading on the freeradius-server (average number of online users
>during the day, total number of users, interval of alive packets etc.).

Freeradius can handle tens of thousands of requests per second. Your
billing sistem most likely can't handle much more than 100 per second.
Don't worry about freeradius - it will easily outperform your billing
sistem. You might need to slow it down so it doesn't crash the billing.
I use buffered-sql virtual server to make accounting off-line. My
billing application has to connect to 4 databases (radius, user details,
account status and account history) so it was quite costly running it in
real time at peak times.

Ivan Kalik
Kalik Informatika ISP