On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:32:55PM -0500, Chuck wrote: > > I am not even positive this is due/related to vserver. > > I have one guest which is a very busy radius server using a mysql > database. > > The previous incarnation had no trouble at all on its own machine. > > Now, we are missing stop packets quite a bit which is causing radius > accounting to go totally haywire. > > I have the added complication that this is a different radius software > than we previously used, and it is not possible to revert back to try > the old one. we previously used IC-Radius and are currently using > Free-Radius.. both use mysql. > > I guess my questions would be process of elimination... > > 1. is there anything within the vserver system that could be > considered a 'heartbeat' where a particular guest would be 'off' for a > miniscule time where it could possibly miss an incoming packet?
only if the host would miss that packet too, as the networking is entirely on the host (not the guest) > 2. is there anything similar within iproute2 framework? > > 3. i remember reading somewhere and now cannot find it that there is a > way to increase the priority of a particular guest. i was wondering if > i did that for this one very slightly if it may ease its pain? doesn't affect network parameters, only task switching and task priorities ... > 4. when inside a guest, does mysql behave slightly slower than it > normally does? if so is there a cure? unfortunately this particular > system requires lightning fast mysql responses. slightly slower might be possible, especially if other tasks are running, but I doubt that this has any influence on the networking stacks, as they usually work much faster than mysql would even get a request (not to talk of answering it back) best, Herbert > 5. anyone have such an experience and a cure/workaround? > > -- > > Chuck > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
