Re: over 30 radiusd processes - more information

2009-10-18 Thread Alan Buxey
Hi, > 1) Could bad accounting packets cause the radiusd process to EXIT? > 2) Could bad accounting packets result in hung child processes (as seen > in the gdb output after the radius log file)? I'd say yes. we ensure that bad packets dont hit our accounting servers eg accounting {

Re: over 30 radiusd processes - more information

2009-10-18 Thread Ivan Kalik
> I think you may be 'jumping the gun' a wee bit. > > The system currently has over 13,000 active sessions. > > There were some odd accounting packets, but the vast majority were valid. > These could be configuration errors or hack attempts (investigating). Something broke at 2am. Before that you

Re: over 30 radiusd processes - more information

2009-10-18 Thread Craig Campbell
day, October 18, 2009 10:56 AM Subject: Re: over 30 radiusd processes - more information I've continued to try an investigate the root cause of this, and the last run behaved slightly differently - the parent process seems to have terminated, and there are more messages in the radius log. Ther

Re: over 30 radiusd processes - more information

2009-10-18 Thread Alan DeKok
Craig Campbell wrote: > I have attached the radius.log file below, as well as gdb sessions for > the hung processes showing the results of the gd 'bt' and 'list' commands. The log is interesting. > Sat Oct 17 02:01:25 2009 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child for > request 165616, in module sql

Re: over 30 radiusd processes - more information

2009-10-18 Thread Ivan Kalik
> I've continued to try an investigate the root cause of this, and the last > run behaved slightly differently - the parent process seems to have > terminated, and there are more messages in the radius log. > > There were four (4) hung processes left over. > > I have attached the radius.log file be

Re: over 30 radiusd processes - more information

2009-10-18 Thread Craig Campbell
I've continued to try an investigate the root cause of this, and the last run behaved slightly differently - the parent process seems to have terminated, and there are more messages in the radius log. There were four (4) hung processes left over. I have attached the radius.log file below, as w