FreeRadius crashed on accounting load tests with 1000 concurrent clients

[Alan DeKok]

Alisson wrote:
> I have the same problem with Freebsd + radius and Mysql 5. server hp
> core 2 duo, 2 gb ram
> 
> we have 1000 connections concurrent... and we have the same error
> "discarding packet'
> 
> Alan Dekok sayd to me that the problem is the same "slow database"
> 
> I'm don't found a solution yet

  Make your DB faster.  This isn't really a RADIUS issue.

  FreeRADIUS spends most of its time waiting for the DB to get its work
done.  If the DB is slow, then no amount of poking FreeRADIUS will make
the RADIUS system run faster.

  Alan DeKok.