[Chilli] Radius Queue Full

Sun Oct 16 09:11:18 UTC 2011

Hi,

Do you know the conditions that cause the segfault, we have been having some
issues with that. Glad to know it is going to be fixed.

Kind Regards / Atentamente,

Miguel Lopes

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-----Mensagem original-----
De: chilli-bounces at coova.org [mailto:chilli-bounces at coova.org] Em nome de
David Bird
Enviada: sábado, 15 de Outubro de 2011 16:32
Para: chilli at coova.org
Assunto: Re: [Chilli] Radius Queue Full

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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