OK - I FINALLY found something on the gethostbyname() function not being thread
safe
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-threads/2004-February/001645.html
According to the info I read the gethostbyname() function uses static storage so if it
is called in a threaded environment it is
Gary McKinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I realize this is probably not the answer people are wanting to see
(it would require some changes to the autoconf scripts to take into
account FreeBSD vs other os types) but apparently that is the tack
the FreeBSD community took to fix this problem...
Great news!!!
I have setup a FreeBSD 5.2.1 system at the house and will be doing some testing over
the weekend on it (with several different configurations to see how it works out)
I'll let you know what I find out (the FreeRadius version is the
20040421-Snapshot)
Gary N. McKinney
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:39:14PM -0600, stenmark wrote:
Is there a recommended OS for freeradius?
Is there really a difference (performance or otherwise) between
running freeradius on FreeBSD compared to a distrobution of Linux
(RedHat, Gentoo, etc...)?
FreeBSD has locking issues
Gary McKinney wrote:
Hi Paul,
I realize this is not a direct FreeRadius issue but possibly could be indirectly
related if the
actual problem still exists with thread locking...
I checked the FreeBSD site for any PR listings for what you have described... did not find
anything - have you checked
:20 +1000
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:39:14PM -0600, stenmark wrote:
Is there a recommended OS for freeradius?
Is there really a difference (performance or otherwise) between
running freeradius on FreeBSD compared to a distrobution of Linux
(RedHat, Gentoo, etc...)?
FreeBSD has locking issues
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 08:49:47AM -0400, Gary McKinney wrote:
I realize this is not a direct FreeRadius issue but possibly could be indirectly
related if the
actual problem still exists with thread locking...
I checked the FreeBSD site for any PR listings for what you have described... did
Hi,
well don?t lmow how well it runs on the others. I run it on Solaris 2.6 and
2.8
and it works well.
Bye
Holger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on :
Is there a recommended OS for freeradius?
Is there really a difference (performance or otherwise) between running
freeradius on FreeBSD
Paul Hampson wrote:
...snip...
_I_ haven't tested against the lastest release of FreeBSD. I'd welcome
any improvements to the thread-safety of FreeRADIUS, so if you want to
test it out and suggest changes that don't break any other versions of
FreeBSD, any other BSD flavours, and (if possible)
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 03:03:26PM -0600, Guy Fraser wrote:
Paul Hampson wrote:
...snip...
_I_ haven't tested against the lastest release of FreeBSD. I'd welcome
any improvements to the thread-safety of FreeRADIUS, so if you want to
test it out and suggest changes that don't break any other
Is there a recommended OS for freeradius?
Is there really a difference (performance or otherwise) between running freeradius on
FreeBSD compared to a distrobution of Linux (RedHat, Gentoo, etc...)?
Evan Stenmark
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21 2004 09:39 stenmark (a):
Is there a recommended OS for freeradius?
Is there really a difference (performance or otherwise) between running
freeradius on FreeBSD compared to a distrobution of Linux (RedHat, Gentoo,
etc...)?
I'm used FreeRADIUS on Gentoo Mandrake. Compiled from source
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