Is it safe if we want to debug, normally only once a week or so, to start
with -x15 from the command prompt, stop the NT service, and then later to
restart the NT service before closing the command prompt window ?
David Chapman
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dale E. Reed Jr. [SMTP:daler@iea-software.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 4:11 PM
> To: radiusnt@iea-software.com
> Subject: Re: [RadiusNT] Debug mode safe when live ?
>
> David Chapman wrote:
> >
> > Running latest RadiusNT with it started as an NT service. A live
> environment
> > with maybe 20 requests per second.
> >
> > Is it safe to run up radius -x15 from a command prompt ?
> >
> > It appears to work OK, ie looking at task manager it hasn't started a
> second
> > copy and in the command prompt window you can see the requests coming
> > through and so can work out what's happening. When you have finished you
> can
> > control C and it says it's cleaned up - but you can also just close the
> > window, and start a second copy, and all the time this is going on it's
> > running as an NT service - a bit scary.
> >
> > We _think_ that when we have a debug window open we seem to have more
> > problems !
>
> If you are really getting 20 requests/second, that means you have to
> have
> < 50ms response times. The video display of debug mode probably adds
> 30ms
> latency at minimum to each request, depending on the level of debug.
> You
> should always stop the service before running RadiusNT in debug mode and
> only run one copy of RadiusNT. If you are not watching the debug,
> minimize
> the window, and the response time will be pretty close to when RadiusNT
> is
> running as a service.
>
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>
> Dale E. Reed Jr. Emerald and RadiusNT
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