freeradius2 exited when running in multi-server mode

[Alan DeKok]

CHui wrote:
> I am testing freeRadius 2.1.6 running on FreeBSD kernel 7.2 i386.  The
> freeradius2 is configured to do ldap authentication and authentication
> worked without any issue.   However, radiusd exited unexpectedly during a
> simple stress test.  I used a sh script to issue the "radtest user pwd . &"
> command in a loop to simulate radius client authentication request. When
> freeradius2 was invoked with the following command "radiusd -d
> /usr/operator/raddb/", thus running in multi-server mode, it exited within a
> few minutes. There was no trace of runtime error nor coredump (did try
> allow_core_dump=yes).  If I run freeradius2 in single-server mode with the
> command "radiusd -s -d /usr/operator/raddb/", it held up quite well.  I
> don't mind running freeradius2 in single-server mode as it appears to handle
> the load quite well during the test.  Is it recommended though?  Any
> suggestion on work around? 

  See doc/bugs for instructions on using gdb to find problems.  Run it
with "-f" as a command-line argument (gdb set args -f).  Let it run
until it dies, and then follow the rest of the instructions in that file.

  Alan DeKok.