Hello Carles -
I have forwarded your mail to Mike, so he can have a look at the problem.
Thanks for reporting it.
regards
Hugh
At 10:14 +0200 17/8/00, Carles Xavier Munyoz Bald� wrote:
>Hi Hugh,
>
>I'm an Antonio Coloma's colleague.
>We are working together in a high avaibility radius system with Radiator
>radius server.
>
>In our test we have discovered that when we use a SQL session database
>with the SQL engine located in a host that can not be reached by the
>radiusd daemon (due to a firewall, or another cause)(there is no error
>in the connection, the problem is that there is no answer to the
>connection request (TCP connect timeout)), the file descriptor used in
>the socket created by radiusd to make this connection is not closed.
>We have seen this using the truss command avaible under Solaris. This is
>part of the output generated by this command:
>...
>12493: so_socket(2, 2, 0, "", 1) = 6
>12493: setsockopt(6, 65535, 8, 0xEFFFF304, 4) = 0
>12493: connect(6, 0xEFFFF378, 16) (sleeping...)
>12493: Received signal #14, SIGALRM, in connect() [caught]
>12493: connect(6, 0xEFFFF378, 16) Err#91 ERESTART
>...
>There is no close system call for close the file descriptor 6.
>
>The radiusd process retries to make the connection again later, and
>opens a new socket and again the same system calls sequence with no
>close of the recently created file descriptor:
>...
>12493: so_socket(2, 2, 0, "", 1) = 7
>12493: setsockopt(7, 65535, 8, 0xEFFFF304, 4) = 0
>12493: connect(7, 0xEFFFF378, 16) (sleeping...)
>12493: Received signal #14, SIGALRM, in connect() [caught]
>12493: connect(7, 0xEFFFF378, 16) Err#91 ERESTART
>...
>
>At the end the radisd service fails due to a there is no file
>descriptors avaible, and in the logfile appears messages like:
>"Wed Aug 16 22:42:23 2000: WARNING: Could not open user database file
>'./db/users' in Radius::AuthDBFILE: Too many open files"
>
>
>Do you known something about this issue ?
>Is a bug ?
>Is there any solution to it ?
>
>Greetings.
>---
>Carles Xavier Munyoz Bald� / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Wanadoo Espa�a
>Dpto. Sistemas / System Department
>Tel: +34 96 5040000 Ext. 40046 - Fax: +34 96 5040047
>http://www.wanadoo.es/
>---
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