[Chilli] Radius Queue Full

[David Bird]

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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