Craig Campbell wrote: > While the ps command doesn't show the time of these extra processes > (over 24 hours old), in a previous event, I determined they seemed to > coincide with a significant increase in radius traffic (from ~100/min to > over 1000/min) I believe the NAS forces all users to log off (and they > automatically log back in) in the middle of the night, and I suspect > this is related.
Well, the server is *supposed* to clean up child processes. > Alan suggested this might be related to shell scripts being run - as > happens when acct STOP records are received. Yes. If you can replace the shell script with a Perl script and use rlm_perl, the issue will go away. > I'm trying to come up with a strategy to narrow down what might be > happening. The server isn't cleaning up child processes. For some reason, it's lost track of them. > Under what circumstances does radiusd fork? Also, I THOUGH I'd heard > somewhere that threads and fork did NOT interact well. It forks when you exec a program. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
