Perl vs. python vs. Lua?

[Dom Latter]

On 27/02/18 14:09, Alan DeKok wrote:
> That makes a BIG difference.  Which means that the speed of running
> Perl or Python code itself doesn't matter, since Python spends most
> of it's time waiting for a lock.

So for anything that might scale to lots of users - perl
is the way to go.

> Use the native DB query functions in FreeRADIUS.  It's MUCH faster
> that way.
> 
> i.e. do any and all DB queries via "update" sections, and assign the
> values to temporary attributes.  Then, run the *logic* in Python.
> i.e. have the python code do if / then / else checks, but don't have
> it to DB connectivity.

Sounds, err, interesting....

> And if you're sending email, you're MUCH better off doing that out of
> band.  i.e. have FR write the information to a file / DB, etc.  Then,
> another process can read that file and send the email.
> 
> Sending the email fro Python code inside of FreeRADIUS means that
> your RADIUS server will go down as soon as there's a problem with
> email.

Right.... seems to have worked reasonably well with the exec module
but I guess that's because it's in another process.