Freeradius 100% cpu

[Phil Mayers]

On 15/05/12 15:09, Arianna Manlio wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm running this version of FR:
>
> # freeradius -v
> freeradius: FreeRADIUS Version 2.1.10, for host i486-pc-linux-gnu, built
> on Nov 14 2010 at 20:41:03

Upgrade to 2.1.12

Why does this say "i486"?

>
> OS is:
> # cat /etc/debian_version
> 6.0.5
> # uname -ar
> Linux 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sun May 6 04:01:19 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> it's a VMware VM with 4 vCpu and 1 GB RAM. Auth module is MySQL.
>
> FR is working but it takes 100% CPU.
> Other strange thing is that load does not rise more than 1 (it should be
> 4 or more).
> Any suggestion?

This doesn't happen for other people on other systems. It's something 
local, either your config, your compilation or runtime environment.

Troubleshoot using standard unix tools e.g. "strace"

Are you sure that it's the "radiusd" process that is consuming 100% CPU?