Marco Steinacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >From time to time I get the following error in the radiusd logfile:
> 
> Mon Apr 22 20:17:50 2002 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id 2051) for 
> request 338
> 
> After that warning there is a radiusd process that uses up to 99% of the cpu. 
> Only restarting the radiusd service cleans that.

  As always, my response is "find out why the child threads are
blocked."

> The system is a production system and should not crash. The max_request_time 
> limit is set to 60 seconds. Two NAS use this radius server; a cisco and a 
> portmaster that are connected via fast ethernet. There are not many requests 
> so that I don't think that it could be a performance problem.

  The problem isn't the NAS.  It's probably the back-end databases
that the RADIUS server is talking to.

  Think about it for a second.  It's taking SIXTY SECONDS to
authenticate a user?  What the heck is going on in your system?

> BTW: We're talking about radiusd-0.5

  Try removing modules that you don't use from 'radiusd.conf'.  One
report was that rlm_counter caused slowdowns.

  Alan DeKok.

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