In my tests, radclient has been /slower/ the radtest processes forked from a Perl script.
100 requests using my forking Perl script takes 2.2 seconds to complete. 100 requests using radclient takes ~8x, i.e 16.7+ seconds to complete. I'm using the variants included with 2.0.3 .. Using both -c and -p for radclient does not appear to actually fire off requests in parallel, then again, I have no immutable evidence showing this, other then the time it takes to complete. My test consists of a very simple auth request, only containing user name and password. Nothing else. Still, at this stage, the client side hosts are closer to a nuclear meltdown, whereas the server side is barely flinching. I want to be able to generate enough traffic to shoot the server down, or at least start seeing it get close to a crawl. I may be doing something wrong with the radclient, that is a possibility as well ... //anders ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ivan Kalik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FreeRadius users mailing list" <freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org> Sent: Friday, May 9, 2008 4:26:37 PM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: Load testing tool recommendation http://wiki.freeradius.org/Radclient Ivan Kalik Kalik Informatika ISP Dana 9/5/2008, "Anders Holm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> piše: >So, I'm building a complete solution, from scratch. > >As such, the business owners have some requirements on how many requests it >should be handle today per second and "some point in the future" as well. > >Would there be any good load testing tools, or some handy way to figure out >how many tps my current setup can handle? > >I've got a dirt simple Perl script that forks out x radtest processes and I'm >just right now seeing how many a second I can ship. Problem being, the RADIUS >server is happily letting me melt down to "client" systems, without breaking a >sweat. I'd like to load the server, not the clients .. :) I want to see where >it eventually breaks down, which seems a task in its own right. > >Any pointers would be much appreciated. I'd rather have something I can fire >off from command line then a GUI solution, for obvious reasons. > >Cheers! > >//anders > > - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
