FreeRadius is 3 time quicker when running in full debug mode ( -X option)

[Vincent Laborie]

Alan and other list member,

It seems that the difference of performance is due to multi thread feature.
When running freeradius with -s option ( single mode ) I have similar
performance than in debug mode.
That make sense as -X is equivalent to -sfxx -l stdout.

So new questions are:
How can I take benefits of  freeradius multi thread option and keeping
good response time ?

According to the man page "Some systems have issues with threading" is
there any system configuration that can help ?

And finally if I decide to stick to single mode how can I modify the
/et/init.d/freeradius to use the -s option ?

Many thanks in advance for your support.
Vincent

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Alan DeKok<aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:
> Vincent Laborie wrote:
>> Many thanks for your answer,
>> I had a look to syslog and it seems that my server is already using rsyslog:
>
>  <shrug>  There isn't anything in the server that says "run faster in
> debug mode".  Usually it's the other way around, because of all the
> extrea output that debug mode has.
>
>> I also try to print directly on stdout :
>> destination = stdout
>> Or in files
>> And this doesn't realy change anything.
>
>  Then the problem is elsewhere.
>
>> I also tried to reduce logging as much as possible for example by commenting :
>> #auth_log
>> but it doesn't realy help too.
>>
>> Looking forward to any clue that will help me to reduce this response time,
>
>  What have you changed from the default configuration?  Start looking
> there.
>
>  Alan DeKok.
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