Alan DeKok <al...@deployingradius.com> writes: > Pierre Rondou wrote: >>> It's possible that you're simply sending packets too fast. If the >>> server doesn't read them from the socket quickly enough, the kernel will >>> simply discard them. >> >> Well, then, why is this only happening in the multi-thread mode? If it >> was a kernel issue, wouldn't it drop the packets in the same way for the >> single-thread version? > > No. I mean that the threading code has overhead which doesn't exist > in the non-threaded mode. Lock contention is a *major* source of lost > CPU time in threaded applications. > > If the server is too slow to process requests, the kernel will throw > away the UDP packets. This happens when the server is slow... whether > it's threaded or not.
But then the client won't get the acks and retransmit. If I understood correctly, then the problem is the packets *are* acked but not logged. File locking problem when multiple threads are attempting to update the same file? Bjørn - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
