[Chilli] Radius Queue Full

[Fernando Macedo]

Hi, David. Do you have any ideawhen will it be released?

Fernando

Em 15/10/2011 14:31, David Bird escreveu:
> Hello,
>
> The RADIUS queue issue is fixed in the next release. So is a segfault
> which occurs under certain conditions....
>
> David
>
> On Sat, 2011-10-15 at 21:57 +1000, Timothy White wrote:
>> I'm guessing this was stuck in a moderation queue for a few months.
>>
>> My understanding is that the radius queue is used so that if the
>> RADIUS server doesn't respond for a little while, accounting packets
>> aren't lost. Ether, your RADIUS server isn't letting Chilli know that
>> it's received those packets (or the network is congested so the
>> messages don't get back), or the RADIUS server is overlaoded.
>> What is your accounting interval set at? If you are experiencing
>> higher "loads" (just think, if you set your interval at 10s, with 200
>> users that's 200 accounting packets every 10 seconds, which the RADIUS
>> server has to do database updates on) then setting a longer accounting
>> interval would help. I know in Cisco routers that the accounting
>> interval is a number of hours!! Generally for a Captive Portal Hotspot
>> though, you want a smaller interval. I currently use about 2.5
>> minutes, in particular so that if no accounting packets are seen in 2
>> intervals (5 minutes) we assume the session to be stale and disconnect
>> it (as we limit connections to 1 per user).
>>
>> Have you managed to fix it or are you still having problems?
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Robert White<rwhite at globalgossip.net>  wrote:
>>> Hello there,
>>> Has any one seen this message before?
>>> ~# tail messages -n 50
>>> Jul 31 18:56:26 pxe coova-chilli[29486]: radius.c: 218: radius queue is
>>> full!
>>> Jul 31 18:56:26 pxe last message repeated 255 times
>>> Jul 31 18:56:26 pxe coova-chilli[29486]: radius.c: 1403: could not put in
>>> queue
>>> Jul 31 18:56:26 pxe coova-chilli[29486]: radius.c: 218: radius queue is
>>> full!
>>> Jul 31 18:56:26 pxe last message repeated 255 times
>>> Jul 31 18:56:26 pxe coova-chilli[29486]: radius.c: 1403: could not put in
>>> queue
>>> Jul 31 18:56:29 pxe coova-chilli[29486]: radius.c: 218: radius queue is
>>> full!
>>> Jul 31 18:56:29 pxe last message repeated 255 times
>>>
>>> The message is obviously quite self explanatory but I'm wondering exactly
>>> why this queue would fill up.  What is the Radius queue actually for?
>>>   Waiting for replies from a Radius server?  Can i set the queue to a bigger
>>> size?  is there a way of clearing the queue without restarting chilli.  I
>>> run chilli across lots of different sites.  I only see this message at some
>>> of my busier sites. 150~200 users and tbh i thought chilli could easily cope
>>> with more than a few 100 users.  Is this a problem with my Radius setup do
>>> you think?
>>> I'd be grateful if anyone could shed some more light on this log message.
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Rob White
>>>
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