Have anyone test the performance about FreeRADIUS+jRadius on authentication?

[Alan DeKok]

Chuang Okis wrote:
> Have anyone test the performance about FreeRADIUS+jRadius on authentication?

  Not me.

> The test was just for authentication load test from gateway to radius
> server. My jradius handler would just do some easy string splitng for
> one VSA.

  Use Perl.  It's integrated into the server, and should be much faster.

  Or, use a regex.  See "man unlang".  Or, write a C module to do it.

> Does this be the most probable factor causing the slow processing? Even
> through I doubt it...

  Yes.  It's jradius.

> Then I did some interesting test later... 
> I left my handler empty but still let traffic get into jradius handler
> through rlm_jradius by TCP socket. 
> The result has improved a bit even though not at our level of acceptance.. 
> Its TPS (Transaction Per Seconds) improved from 30 to 300 approximately. 

  300 is still MUCH slower than 10,000.

> Hence, I'm guessing the bottleneck may be the process of rlm_jradius
> communication. 
> Does anyone get any help or recommendation??
> Or any other performance tuning tips I can do?

  Don't use jradius.  It's very slow.  Use pretty much anything else.

  Alan DeKok.