freeradius load and message handling

[liran kessel]

so this is happening cause of the speed that it takes to write to MySQL?

How wil version 4.0 help me with this?

> On 14 Jun 2016, at 11:04 PM, Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb at freeradius.org> wrote:
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>> On Jun 14, 2016, at 4:00 PM, liran kessel <lirankessel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> 
>> we have a freeradius server collecting accounting events from a few Nokia GGSN’s and are storing them into the MySQL DB.
>> 
>> Now that we have activated all messages we are receiving around 20K messages a minute, and have started seeing these events in the radius.log
>> 
>> Tue Jun 14 22:53:33 2016 : Info: WARNING: Please check the configuration file. 	The value for 'max_requests' is probably set too low.
>> 
>> it was originally set to 1024, when we increased it and set it to 4096 the amount of such events was reduced but still didn’t disappear.
>> If we set it higher (6100 for  example) we start getting these errors
>> 
>> Tue Jun 14 21:30:02 2016 : Error: Received conflicting packet from client localhost port 41935 - ID: 200 due to unfinished request 192178.  Giving up on old request.
>> 
>> why does this event appear? what would be the best way to manage this situation?
>> 
>> The server has 8 Cores and 4GB of RAM.
>> It seems that the CPU isn’t overly loaded, but our RAM is almost completely used by the Radius and Mysql processes.
> 
> Use version 4.0 (in about three months time), or get a faster database.
> 
> -Arran
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