On 24 Jul 2012, at 18:18, Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote: > > On 24 Jul 2012, at 14:24, Alan DeKok wrote: > >> Amir Tal wrote: >>> After additional debugging the fault seems to be with a rouge backup >>> process running on DB host, causing it to be slow to un-responsive for >>> 10-20 minutes. >> >> Stop that. The database used by the RADIUS server should ONLY be used >> by the RADIUS server. > > Use SQL replication to transfer the records to another system and backup from > that. Do not perform intensive queries on a live system. It also sounds like > you might be using MyISAM for radacct, if you are convert it to InnoDB ASAP. > > Yes you can use buffered SQL to protection against temporary DB outages. But > only for Accounting. Don't try this on 2.1x branch, use 3.0 if you want > something that actually works reliably... > > Yes you can use redundant to fail open or closed, but its simpler to just:
Um and redundant { sql ok } Wouldn't work... - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html