(RADIATOR) radiator performance benchmarks?

[Chris M]

On 3/22/04 9:52 AM, "Rodrigo Nuno Bragança da Cunha"
<rodrigo.cunha at corp.vodafone.pt> wrote:

> 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...

Hi Rodrigo:

I think your comments are interesting, but don't quite understand them.
What practical changes/configuration mods do you advocate for improving
Radiator's performance?

Chris

> 
> 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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