> Basically, the number of subscribers increased. If we do a maintenance > window where we swing back and forth the traffic to the router, all > the subscribers will hit the router which eventually push all the > RADIUS Requests to the RADIUS server in one shot and on which the > MySQL backend is choked during that time.
Try using buffered-sql virtual server to separate accounting from authentication. At busy time accounting will lag behind but it will catch up when rush passes. Ivan Kalik Kalik Informatika ISP - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
