On Mon August 4 2003 19:01, Andrea Coppini wrote: > > DB backends are good, and save alot of admin, but don't expect them to > > be > > > faster than a memory scan :-) > > I haven't done any tests, but I would presume an SQL backend would be > more 'robust' than freeradius. > > The way I see it, having 1 request a minute is definitely faster with a > users file in memory, but when the load hits and you have 10,000 hits > per minute, freeradius would grind to a halt having to look up the > credentials and handling all NAS comms simultaneously, while freeradius > + sql would just continue doing their respective jobs as normal.
If that were the case, it would only be because of a bug in FreeRadius. Much more system resources are used by SQL+Radius than just by Radius. -- Peter Nixon http://www.peternixon.net/ PGP Key: http://www.peternixon.net/public.asc - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
