Johan Meiring wrote: > I am running 2.1.12 on a production server. > The server is (was) severly underpowered and the database was straining.
Don't do that.... > I was expenting the normal - "rejecting duplicate request". (Cant remember > exact error). Pretty much, yes. > Then the server received about 30 access requests in about .1 second > > It then went into a state where the following appeared over and over in the > log: > > Mon Sep 12 11:33:46 2011 : Info: WARNING: Child is hung for request 647 in > component <core> module <queue>. > Mon Sep 12 11:33:46 2011 : Info: WARNING: Child is hung for request 648 in > component <core> module <queue>. Hmmm... it's *really* slow. The requests are placed in a queue for the child threads to pick up. But... if the system is locked, they'll sit in the queue for a long time. > It never recovered. > Had to be restarted. > Even with no database queries outstanding. > > Dont know if 2.1.12 has more "difficulty" with slow databases? It shouldn't. > Unfortunately dont have more info, so this can probably be ignored. There are ways of addressing it... Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html

