On 7 Jul 2006, at 17:46, Alan DeKok wrote:
Graeme Hinchliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
these are hex values, not octal, and it seems to be an intermittent
thing.
Dang. Those bugs are hard to track down.
Yup, looking high and low for correlation
Are dictionaries loaded each time a child is started? or just once
and then kept in memory?
The server doesn't start any children. The dictionaries are loaded
once, and cached as long as it's running.
damn, thats that theory out then :)
Looking through the data we have, as it's easy to spot the errored
data with the session ID we are logging when it is occuring. We have
noticed this occurs mainly when the accounting server is busy. This
would also explain why this has suddenly occured in such large
numbers as we have recently increased the number of updates from the
NASes. This has obvioulsy increased the load on the server.
Looking at the backend DB (postgres) there are very few free
postgress handles availible (we are using 50 connections from the
server to the DB) if any.
When FreeRADIUS has no free connection with which to account the
packet what does it do? Does the packet sit in RAM and try again? or
is it simply discarded? I am suspecting that this may be a cause for
what we are seeing as the problem only seems to occur during server
backups and high load.
Thanks
Graeme
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