Re: Serving >80000 users with RADIUS

Matthew N. Dodd (winter@jurai.net)
Thu, 23 Jan 1997 22:56:29 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, William Bulley wrote:
> We routinely handle over 100,000 sessions (attempts to authenticate)
> each day! The University of Michigan Kerberos database alone has over

We've got code here that will serve that many requests in two minutes,
without breaking a sweat.

Read your entire user database into memory and do binary searches on it.

Put the server in single threaded blccking mode.

Put alot of RAM in the box.

I'll see if I can make diffs available for this code.

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