Freeradius 3.0.8 Can't create UNIX socket and Too many open files

[Alan DeKok]

On Apr 28, 2015, at 5:04 PM, Rygl Aleš <ales at rygl.net> wrote:
> We have ~1M of records in radacct table and all of them are on-line sessions. 
> That's the problem. I am cleaning closed sessions every 20s, which removes ~2k 
> records to the "historical" table. Maybe some partitioning or data split could 
> help here.

  Ah... 99% of the time people have 1M records, they're historical records.

  In your situation, you should throw more CPU / disk / memory at the problem.  Maybe sharding.  With 1M online users, you *don't* want to have a single point of failure.

  Alan DeKok.