On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Nathan Miller wrote:

> I seem to be having the same issue.. seems to happen randomly about once a
> week on a production server running a simple perl backend for authentication.
>
> snippet of log...
> Thu Nov 14 15:26:38 2002 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id 65559)
> for request 13464
> Thu Nov 14 15:26:38 2002 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id 66584)
> for request 13465
> Thu Nov 14 15:26:39 2002 : Error: CHILD: exit on signal (11)
>
> Now this is a production server recently upgraded from v0.3 to
> v0.7.1.  v.0.3 did not crash like this.  As soon as you get those errors
> all instances of radius crash and burn.  Let's just say if a external auth
> process gets stuck, why is the entire radius server bombing and not just
> that thread aborting?  Seems goofy to me.

This is a known bug which has been fixed in the cvs head. Use the latest cvs
snapshots and you should be fine.

>
> At 10:13 AM 10/30/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >Igor Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > The main reason of core dumping was delay after sending request to
> > > database. Trigger on UPDATE became too slow (UPDATE request was handled
> > > ~40 - 60 sec.)
> >
> >   This problem should be addressed in the documentation in flaming
> >letters 10 feet high.  If the back-end database takes more than 5
> >seconds to respond to a request, then the RADIUS server will not be
> >able to authenticate people.
> >
> >   Once the database is broken, the RADIUS server (which depends on the
> >database) can't be any better.
> >
> >   Alan DeKok.
> >
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