Re: [Help-gnu-radius] Long startup time

[Gerald]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Greg G wrote:

> This is on a Solaris 2.7 box.

I thought everything was slow on a Solaris box? ;-)

> When I start up (or HUP the radiusd), there's about a 2 to 3 minute
> period between when I get the "users reloaded" message and the "Ready to
> process requests" message.  truss shows me *nothing* during this time.
> ps tells me that its' in the 'run' state or taking up 40%+ of one of my
> CPUs.  What is it doing during this time, and is there possibly a way to
> shorten it?  I don't want my radius server to be down that long if I'm
> just HUPping it.

Technically you are supposed to do radctl reload to reread config files. I
think it currently just HUPs the process, but in case that changes in the
future you might want to learn the correct way to start with.

Are any of the partitions that radius is interacting with using NFS?
Either the logging partition or where you have your config files?

Is DNS configured for forward and reverse of your primary IP address on
this machine?

What version of gnu-radius are you using?

> So, is this normal?

It's not normal on my machines, but I'm also not on solaris.

radius#: time radctl reload
Reloading configs

real    0m0.025s
user    0m0.009s
sys     0m0.024s

running gnu-radius 1.0 on that machine at the moment.

Gerald