Fwd: Child is hung (max_request)

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Fri Nov 21 17:58:09 CET 2014


srithar jeevadurai wrote:
> Radius server take radius request and only for accouting request (not
> for access), it will send it to another module via TCP/IP (local server)
> and the module to convert it to diameter request to send it to IN server.  
> The same module will response to Radius server for any response comes
> from IN. 
> 
> So Radius server can support only 100 TPS at max. 

  Then don't send more that 100 TPS to the RADIUS server.  Otherwise, it
won't work.

> Because when radius server faces "child is hung", we need to restart to
> bring it normal. 

  For v2, please try the v2.x.x branch.  I've put a patch in which may
help this.

> Please let me know whether it is a good idea to set the max_request to
> 3000 so that radius server will not face "child is hung" and no need to
> restart the server to resolve the same.

  It doesn't solve the problem.  It just delays the problem.

  Alan DeKok.


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