Killing unresponsive child (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Tue, 30 Apr 1996 18:03:10 -3100 (PDT)

Once upon a time Greg Freemyer shaped the electrons to say...
>I am getting 'Killing unresponsive child' on a consistent basis in my
>radius logfile (10 times in the last 22 minutes).
>
>Is this normal or do I have a problem?

You have some kind of problem. Child processes are cutting off communication
with the parent so the parent is reaping them to clean up.

>I am running under SCO Open Server 5 with 2 portmasters servicing 50
>modems. To be honest I don't know where the executable came from, but I
>believe it is Livinston's radius, not someone elses.

Someone probably just modified it to run on SCO.

>I also get a lot of 'Dropping duplicate: from lpm2.cyberatl.net - ID: 215'
>type messages, but I suspect that these are a consequence of the others.

Yes - both can be caused by an overloaded server.

-MZ

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