I had a similar problem, but found it was being caused by radutmp and radwtmp! Soon as I stopped accounting to those files (I didn't have a reason to use them), server ran extremely well.
Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graeme Hinchliffe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 6:05 PM Subject: Re: threads hanging around > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:15:19 -0400 > "Alan DeKok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Graeme Hinchliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have now tried the unmodified code and exactly the same behaviour > > > occurs. The number of threads steadily increases, default started > > > with 11 and over the space of 30 minutes it is up to 19 > > > > There's not much I can say. If no one else can reproduce the > > problem, then it's extremely difficult to track down. > > > > You can try running: > > > > ./radiusd -xxx > > > > which will print out full debugging information, AND use threads. > > Re-direct it to a *large* disk, and root through the logs, looking for > > 'unresponsive child'. Look backwards from that point, for the > > original request, and how it was processed. > > OK, done that and have found: > > Wed Sep 24 16:23:58 2003 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id 6151) for request 426 > > after that there are a lot of: > > Wed Sep 24 16:23:58 2003 : Debug: Server rejecting request 426 > > smattered through the rest of the output > > until: > > Wed Sep 24 16:27:18 2003 : Error: Dropping conflicting packet from client gauss:1812 - ID: 150 due to unfinished request 426 > > after which the "Server rejecting request 426" message crops up again > > I have tried reading back through the logs but cannot figure out what request 426 is, nor which log lines relate to it. There are a few references to Thread 6 which it is assigned to, but nothing in the log that lets me know what the request was or what happened to it... There appear to be dumps of requests in the log but I cannot see any relation to this info and a request number. > > Does this help point out what is wrong? > > Could it be related to the NAS model? > > -- > ----- > Graeme Hinchliffe (BSc) > Core Team Member > Zen Internet (http://www.zen.co.uk) > > ICQ 3842605 (link) > > Direct: 0845 058 9074 > Main : 0845 058 9000 > Fax : 0845 058 9005 > > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
