Radiator has a tool called radpwtst for functionality and stress
testing.  It simulates a NAS sending access and accounting requests and
receiving replies from the radius server.

I did a stress test on Radiator more than a year ago by running radpwtst
on 4 boxes and Radiator on one linux box (PIII-500, 256MB) -- the radius
server was able to handle at least 30 requests (access and accounting)
per second.  This is with both database and file logging.

Brian Baquiran wrote:
> 
> I am curious as to the stress-testing of radius. Did you actually
> simulate >1000 people logging in *at the exact same time*, or just
> people logging more-or-less at random until they totalled 1000?
> Regardless of how many total users are logged in to the NAS, radius is
> basically idle (that is, either sitting in a select() loop, or blocked
> in recv()) unless someone logs in or out (an auth or start/stop accting
> packet arrives from the NAS).
> 
> Radius is simple enough that there should be very little inherent
> performance overhead in any implementation. Your bottleneck will be your
> logging functions (e.g. whether you insert into a database, write to
> file, etc.) and whatever additional customizations you do yourself.
> 
> Brian
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