rlm_python3 behavior with multi-worker threads

[Alan DeKok]

On Sep 24, 2025, at 3:35 PM, Erdal Emlik <erdalemlik at icloud.com> wrote:
> Thank you for detailed and quick response.
> This is my default configuration, and this is my Python module.

  I can't debug third-party Python code, that's not relevant to FreeRADIUS.  But...

> I also use Python for accounting, since I send records to Kafka from within it, but I have never received any exceptions there.

  It's not about exceptions.  It's about it being slow.

> Getting exceptions only in authentication is a bit confusing for me.

  The server uses the same threads for both authentication and accounting.  So if all of the threads are blocked in accounting, the authentication packets will have probl

> (I’m planning to switch to the Kafka module and I’m following the updates on that…)

  It's preferable to use the native functionality.  The Python module is very slow.  Very, very, very, slow.

> if find_key(p, "NAS-Port-Id"):
> return find_key(p, "NAS-Port-Id").split('#')[0]
> return find_key(p, "Calling-Station-Id").split('#')[0]

  Don't do this.

  These checks can be done in unlang.  You don't need to use Python.  And it will be 1000 times faster.


  Alan DeKok.