Re: Serving >80000 users with RADIUS

William Bulley (web@merit.edu)
Thu, 23 Jan 1997 23:05:13 -0500 (EST)

According to Matthew N. Dodd:
>
> We've got code here that will serve that many requests in two minutes,
> without breaking a sweat.

I wasn't using those numbers as a performance measurement. I'm sure
(but have never timed) that we can reach much higher speeds...

The point was that real-world, real-time usage is daily exceeding
the 100,000 session mark. I think that is quite a row to hoe...

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

We do.

> Put the server in single threaded blccking mode.

We don't -- blocking is bad when users are trying to authenticate...

> Put alot of RAM in the box.

We have.

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

Diffs for the Merit server? Which version?

Regards,

web...

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