Re: RadiusNT v2.2 dies after a day or so

Dale E. Reed Jr. ( (no email) )
Tue, 26 May 1998 13:51:26 -0700

Postman Account wrote:
>
> Do you think it be more stable if I ran it with radius -x15
> mode... as opposed to an NT service... ? ...at least
> until our new server... that we will be using... with MS SQL...
> arrives this week?

I doubt it would be any more stable, but atleast you would be
able to see what the problem is, and possibly a way to correct
or work around it.

> At 01:30 PM 5/26/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >Postman Account wrote:
> >>
> >> Our RadiusNT v2.2 server will stop authenticating users after
> >> about one or two days of use.
> >>
> >> When I attempt a radlogin, during this time, all authenication
> >> responses are bad. After a reboot, the server will start
> >> authenticating users once again for another day or so.
> >
> >Have you tried running RadiusNT in -x15 debug mode to
> >see what happens during thir down time? It might be
> >crashing, running into a license problem, etc.
> >
> >> We're running RadiusNT v2.2 on a P2-300 w/128MB RAM.... using
> >> MS Access 95... around 1,500 accounts... no other services
> >> are installed on this system.
> >>
> >> Also, I've noticed that their is a memory leak that is
> >> occuring... if the server stays up (without reboot) for about
> >> 5 days... (which hasn't happened in days) ...the memory
> >> use will be almost double! (80mb use or more)
> >
> >Most likely this is a JET database problem. There is a none
> >JET memory leak that affects many things. A customer have been
> >fighting an ASP memory problem with jet for a long time.
> >Its hard to pinpoint the problemt to RadiusNT, since it will
> >run for months w/out a problem when using something like
> >SQL Server or Sybase.
> >
> >
> >--
> >Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea-software.com)
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