Giuseppe Marocchio wrote: > i have inherited the administration of a radius server, that > authenticate 900 PPPoE user on mikrotik box. > > i've noticed that there is some performance problem, mikrotik box show > that "last request RTT" in some cases is up to 1000ms, there is some > "resend" request and also some "timeouts", In order to mitigate the > problem i've disabled the interim update, and the timeouts are > drastically reduced. > But exists.
A 386 should handle 900 users without a problem. > i' use mysql back-end, i've checked if there are slow queries but file > is empty. ( of course is enabled... ) <shrug> Performance issues are almost always the DB. > the server is a dual core Xeon 3.0Ghz with 1 Gb of ram. > The SO is debian Linux stable, freeradius is 2.1.10 installed by > debian package. So it's not the RADIUS server which is the problem. That amount of CPU power is more than enough. > Any ideas? Fix the database. If you don't think it's the DB, configure a test server on the same machine which doesn't use the DB. It will handle 2000+ packets per second. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
