Radius freeze

[Marinko Tarlac]

This usually happens when you have external script who does something 
with database and it hangs for some reasons.

Try not to use them or check what's going on with it.

Of course, this is just a guess because I don't have any kind of magic 
ball and you didn't post anything usable for debugging
Another reasons can be:
- slow disk,
- slow database
- you don't have correctly indexed fields in your sql schema
- gremlins
- war in Irak
- ...

Tokie wrote:
> Thanks to Kenneth for the quickly answer.
>
> I restart all system (reboot).
> Freeradius start at the boot and works:
>> # ps aux |grep freeradius
>> freerad   2784  0.0  0.9  49644  2344 ?        Ssl  May06   0:00 
>> /usr/sbin/freeradius
> Just hotspot's user connect :
>> # ps aux |grep freeradius
>> freerad   2784  0.0  1.1  49744  3004 ?        Ssl  May06   0:00 
>> /usr/sbin/freeradius
>> freerad   4536  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    10:36   0:00 
>> [freeradius] <defunct>
> Why born a zombie process?
> Which configuration file should I check?
>
> I try new version of freeradius, but I was not able to make it works!!
> So, I prefer to keep this version.
>
> Pls help me.
> Tks a lot
>
> Il 04/05/2010 17.12, Kenneth Marshall ha scritto:
>> On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 04:56:46PM +0200, Tokie wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> I'm using FreeRADIUS Version 1.1.7 with Mysql.
>>> I use for Hotspot system.
>>>
>>> All works fine, but after around one day without activity, the radius
>>> server don't answer.
>>> Therefore, if I restart (/etc/init.d/freeradius restart), all works ok!!
>>>
>>> I monitor with the command "ps" and just restart result:
>>> # ps ax | grep freeradius
>>> 26118 ?        Ssl    0:00 /usr/sbin/freeradius
>>>
>>> Immediately after the connection of a hotspot's user:
>>> # ps ax | grep freeradius
>>> 26118 ?        Ssl    0:00 /usr/sbin/freeradius
>>> 26158 ?        Z      0:00 [freeradius] <defunct>
>>>
>>> What does this mean  *_/[freeradius] <defunct>/_*?
>>>
>>> If hotspot's user disconnect, nothing changes!!
>>>
>>> Could you help me??
>>>     
>> Retarting the server is the appropriate measure to use to address
>> this problem. The better solution would be to upgrade to version 2.1.8
>> which fixes so many bugs...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ken
>>
>>   
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