Freeradius Load average

[Dom Latter]

On 25/04/2019 16:46, Bassem Mettichi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we are using Freeradius 3:0.18 and we see that when we activate accounting
> logs the load average of the freeradius machine is very height ( 197%)
> however when we desactivate these logs the load average is less than 10%,
> our server has 8VCPU and we receive 3000 accounting start / second, is
> there any solution to reduce cpu consumption when activating detail module ?

AIUI the average single core load is the load average divided by the
number of cores.  In your case that comes to ~25%.

Is a system running at a quarter of capacity a problem?

I use the i7z utility to monitor how the CPU is behaving.  This may be
informative.

https://delightlylinux.wordpress.com/2016/12/20/i7z-what-is-your-i7i5i3-cpu-doing/

https://superuser.com/questions/729634/load-average-and-processor-count