(RADIATOR) radiator performance benchmarks?

[Rodrigo Nuno Bragança da Cunha]

You may fork and answer in the child process. In fact considering the
performance of modern servers (even single-processor)  I've noticed
that's the most effective way of running Radiator in most instances,
since database queries take time, etc...

Tariq Rashid wrote:

>I know that Radiator is written in perl and it is single-threaded. Despite
>this, we have no problem running it in a pretty large scale deployment. 
>
>However, we would like to be able to compare its performance with other
>radius servers (in particular freeradius) - simply for capacity planning.
>When will we expect to add a new server to the load-balanced cluster? At
>what requests/sec can we expect it to fail? What affect does accountign have
>on the server?
>
>And even a set of benchmarks quantifying performance over a varying
>underlying operating system. Perhaps linux 2.4/6, freebsd 4/5, different
>perl varsions, different kernel parameters (eg preallocated mbufs?)
>
>I'd also like to raise a quite odd statement in the O-Reilly Radius book by
>Hassell, published only at the end of last year which suggests at the end of
>his book that Radiator is only for small setups. Surely not? He doesn't say
>why?
>
>Tariq
>
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