On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Funk, Michael wrote: > Hey All.... > > I'm in the middle of upgrading my ISP servers using FreeRADIUS. > > My main concern is SPEED. I have my opinions, but another one is ALWAYS > helpful! > > I will be handling about 300,000+ users and growing within the next few > months. > ( Chris might be interested in that statement ;-) ) > > Any opinions on the following: > - FreeBSD 4.6 or Red Hat 7.2 (Mostly a religious question, but it does > matter) > - MySQL, GDMB, BerkeleyDB, or LDAP 2.x for the users (I really want to > replicate between 2 boxes)
All should work quite fine. For administration reasons you should probably use MySQL or LDAP. We are using iPlanet LDAP Server 5.0 with around 50000 users without any problems. Both the mysql and ldap modules are multithreaded and work great. You should probably worry about tuning your mysql or ldap server than the radius server. > - RAM (I'm doing 1 GB, but can be easily persuaded to use 2) Not much really. You should use RAM though for the mysql or ldap servers (caches,buffers etc) and for the OS caches (Directory and Buffer caches). > - Disk Array (I'm using 2 ea. 18 GB Mirrored...I'd rather be using 6 ea with > RAID 1+0 and) As long as you have enough memory for caching the I/O subsystem wont make much difference. doc/tuning_guide sould give you a few guielines. > - Lots of pipe..... (Not an issue....) > > On a side note.... Anyone opinions on the fastest Email solution is > encouraged. > > (Watch out for the Topic Police) > Michael Funk > > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > -- Kostas Kalevras Network Operations Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] National Technical University of Athens, Greece Work Phone: +30 10 7721861 'Go back to the shadow' Gandalf - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
