hi, i would say i disagree with your statements - but you wouldnt listen to me if the FR thread is stuck in MySQL land then it cannot answer other requests. hence its slow.
disable any modules and calls to functions that you arent using. use other threads for dealing with SQL - and move themn to suitable places - eg post-auth for allocation of VLANs etc alan - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html