Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child

2009-09-29 Thread muffin sk
Hello Alan, On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Alan Buxey a.l.m.bu...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: are you doing authentication and accounting via MySQL?  did you perform a benchmark of the RADIUS server + MySQL (eg with dumb temp accounts) to check what the loading could be?  in my experience,

Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child

2009-09-29 Thread muffin sk
Hello Alan, On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Alan DeKok al...@deployingradius.com wrote:  What does that mean?  You kick all of the users off, and then allow them back on? Just bypass the router and the RADIUS servers to go straight to the Internet.  Well... if the MySQL server can't

Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child

2009-09-29 Thread muffin sk
Hello Ivan, On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Ivan Kalik t...@kalik.net wrote: 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. Noted. I will check this out then. Thank you.

Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child

2009-09-28 Thread muffin sk
Hello all, I am continuously getting this error message on my /var/log/radius/radius.log file: Mon Sep 28 18:26:55 2009 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id 1094719808) for request 24026 (in component accounting module rlm_exec) In effect, I got a timeout on account start and stop which

Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child

2009-09-28 Thread Alan Buxey
Hi, Hello all, I am continuously getting this error message on my /var/log/radius/radius.log file: Mon Sep 28 18:26:55 2009 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id 1094719808) for request 24026 (in component accounting module rlm_exec) In effect, I got a timeout on account start

Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child

2009-09-28 Thread Ivan Kalik
I am continuously getting this error message on my /var/log/radius/radius.log file: Mon Sep 28 18:26:55 2009 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id 1094719808) for request 24026 (in component accounting module rlm_exec) Your perl script isn't working. Ivan Kalik Kalik Informatika ISP

Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child

2009-09-28 Thread muffin sk
Hello Alan and all, On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Alan Buxey a.l.m.bu...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: this sort of message means that the child process is taking ages to do what is asked of it. in this case, its accounting and the accounting config is trying to run some external executable which

Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child

2009-09-28 Thread Alan Buxey
Hi, Previously, this has been working smoothly. Then we changed some configurations on the following devices which currently we are now too many changes made at the same time. - Retry Count from 3 to 10 - Timeout from 3 to 10 so the router now hits the RADIUS 10 times insteda of 3 but has

Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child

2009-09-28 Thread muffin sk
Hello Alan and all, On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Alan Buxey a.l.m.bu...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: so the router now hits the RADIUS 10 times insteda of 3 but has more casuallnes in timeout Basically: Retry Count is the maximum number of times that the router retransmits a RADIUS packet to the

Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child

2009-09-28 Thread Alan Buxey
Hi, Retry Count is the maximum number of times that the router retransmits a RADIUS packet to the RADIUS server. In this case, this has been increased from 3 times to 10 times. Timeout is the interval (in seconds) before the router retransmits a RADIUS packet to the RADIUS server. In this

Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child

2009-09-28 Thread Alan DeKok
muffin sk wrote: Basically, the number of subscribers increased. If we do a maintenance window where we swing back and forth the traffic to the router, What does that mean? You kick all of the users off, and then allow them back on? all the subscribers will hit the router which eventually

Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child

2009-09-28 Thread Ivan Kalik
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

Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child for request in module sqlcomponent accounting

2009-02-27 Thread magicboiz
Thx Alan I coded a very simple script to check the mysl server latency: #!/bin/sh ExecQuery () { echo select count(*) from radacct; | mysql -h mysqlserver -u radiususer --password=radiuspassword radaccoutingdb } while [ -n 1 ] do echo -n starting query. date

Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child for request inmodule sqlcomponent accounting

2009-02-27 Thread tnt
Executing this script during last 24h (with nohup), from the radius machine, I got always latencies below 1 second Below 1 second or below 1/100th of a second? Near 1 second for such a simple query is *very* slow. Have in mind that insert into radacct is going to take some 100 times

Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child for request in module sqlcomponent accounting

2009-02-26 Thread magicboiz
HI again Ivan Do you know how can I modify the source code, in order to print in the error message the exact time when the child was created/forked? If I want to find errors in my sql backend server, I need to know the exact time when the requests are lost.. checking the code, It looks

Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child for request in module sqlcomponent accounting

2009-02-26 Thread Marinko Tarlac
First, optimize your database, add indexes and use storage engines which will give you the best performance... Increase interim-update interval After that, try to add more handlers and see what will happen. If you're using mysql, check tuning-primer.sh and mysqltuner.pl scripts. On Thu, Feb 26,

Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child for request in module sqlcomponent accounting

2009-02-26 Thread Alan DeKok
magicboiz wrote: Do you know how can I modify the source code, in order to print in the error message the exact time when the child was created/forked? If I want to find errors in my sql backend server, I need to know the exact time when the requests are lost.. checking the code, It

Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child for request in module sql component accounting

2009-02-25 Thread magicboiz
Hello all!! I facing this problem with my Freeradius 2.1.3, and I don't know how to solve it :( My NAS is sending only accounting registers to my freeradius server. My freeradius server, is configured to store these registers into a MySQL server. I have configured max_request_time = 120, in

Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child for request in module sqlcomponent accounting

2009-02-25 Thread tnt
I facing this problem with my Freeradius 2.1.3, and I don't know how to solve it :( My NAS is sending only accounting registers to my freeradius server. My freeradius server, is configured to store these registers into a MySQL server. I have configured max_request_time = 120, in the case of MySQL

Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child for request in module sqlcomponent accounting

2009-02-25 Thread magicboiz
Thx Ivan, and do you know if the accouting registers is lost? or another child retries the insert into the database? thx Regards On Miércoles 25 Febrero 2009 14:09:44 t...@kalik.net wrote: I facing this problem with my Freeradius 2.1.3, and I don't know how to solve it :( My NAS is

Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child for request in modulesqlcomponent accounting

2009-02-25 Thread tnt
and do you know if the accouting registers is lost? or another child retries the insert into the database? They usually are - there are no handles to write to the database as the whole server gets blocked. I haven't seen tha case where single handle would dia and the rest of them would continue

Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child

2006-07-12 Thread Farhan Karim
still waiting for the answer...On 7/11/06, Farhan Karim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the response.INFRANET, is a portal based customer management and billing system for IP and telecommunications service providers. it provides many functionality.well coming back to problem, i have a little

Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child

2006-07-12 Thread Alan DeKok
Farhan Karim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: still waiting for the answer... Try going back and reading the list archives. You got an answer already, and appeared to have missed it or ignored it. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html

Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child

2006-07-09 Thread Phil Mayers
Alan DeKok wrote: Farhan Karim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we are facing a continuous problems in free-radius server. It had been working fine but lately now an error that it generates as we enable forwarding packets from INFRANET Radius Server to FreeRadius server. INFRANET? What's that? I

Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child

2006-07-09 Thread Alan DeKok
Phil Mayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe it's the new and very very stupid name for a Juniper (Funk-based?) Yes. Juniper bought Funk. product that checks your AV definitions are up to date before letting you through the firewall using either 802.1x or eap-over-udp maybe?

Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child

2006-07-08 Thread Farhan Karim
: Info: Ready to process requests.Wed Jul 5 17:50:52 2006 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id 6) for request 16 Wed Jul 5 17:50:52 2006 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id 7) for request 17Wed Jul 5 17:50:52 2006 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id 4) for request 19Wed Jul 5 17:50:52

Re: Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child

2006-07-08 Thread Alan DeKok
2006 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id 6) for request 16 It looks like one of the modules that is handling the request is blocked. Fix that. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html