[RADIATOR] Radiator & Debian Wheezy = memory problem?

Kurt Bauer kurt.bauer at univie.ac.at
Thu Jul 4 04:16:33 CDT 2013


Hi Sami,

Sami Keski-Kasari schrieb:
> Hello Kurt,
>
> I think that you updated to Radiator 4.11 when you updated to Debian 7?
yes, breaking the basic rule to never change more than one thing at a
time ;-)

>
> We found memory leak in AuthRADSEC module which was caused by the
> change done in 4.10 patches (Special Thanks to Paul Dekkers @SURFnet
> for helping us to debug this).
>
> The change is reverted now in the latest 4.11 patch set.
>
> Could you try if it helps to your problem?

I applied the latest patch set yesterday and can confirm, that the
memory leak problem went away. Radiusd is now using about 4% of memory,
not increasing for about 20h now.

Thanks a lot for the fix,
best regards,
Kurt
>
> The change was related to fix some issues in
> UseStatusServerForFailureDetect.
>
> We have done proper fix to AuthByRADIUS as Heikki Vatiainen announced
> 2013-06-19:
> http://www.open.com.au/pipermail/radiator/2013-June/019148.html
>
> We are currently integrating those changes to AuthRADSEC and in
> meantime I would advice not to use UseStatusServerForFailureDetect in
> AuthBy RADSEC.
>
> Best Regards,
>  Sami
>
>
> On 06/19/2013 12:04 PM, Kurt Bauer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> since upgrading one of our radius-servers to Debain 7 (Wheezy) we
>> expierence serious memory problems, namely Radiator eating up all the
>> available memory over time (see attached graph). We have a few Radiator
>> installations running and the ones on Debian Squeeze behave fine.
>> Radiator 4.11 plus latest patches
>> Perl v5.14.2 (as packaged in Wheezy)
>>
>> Any similar experiences or hints why this could be? Restarting Radiator
>> every few days rectifies the situation but is not the way we want to run
>> the service ;-)
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>> best regards,
>> Kurt
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Kurt Bauer <kurt.bauer at univie.ac.at>
>> Vienna University Computer Center - ACOnet - VIX
>> Universitaetsstrasse 7, A-1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe
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>>
>>
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