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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 | ------------ MAIN SERVER -------------
o If you have a large user base and/or many authentication requests try
using a scalable authentication mechanism like ldap or sql.
o Enable noatime on all the freeradius log files or better yet on the
freeradius log directory.
o Always use the latest cvs version. It will probably contain a few
fixes and enhancements.
o Always try to use the least modules possible. In particular if you
can avoid it do not use the detail and radwtmp (files) modules.
They will slow down your accounting.
o Use the users file to only set default profiles. Do not place any
users there. Keep it as small as possible. Always set default
attributes in the users file and don't fill the user entries in
ldap/sql with default values. In general the ldap/sql user profiles
should contain user attributes only in special user cases.
o Tune thread pool parameters to match your size requirements.
Set max_requests_per_server to zero to avoid server thread restarts.
o Enlarge the timeout (10 secs) and retries (5-7) in the access servers
for accounting. That way you won't lose any accounting information.
o Use well tuned Fast Ethernet connections to minimize latency.
o freeradius is multi threaded and i/o bound. That means you should use
the latest OS kernels/patches for improved multi processor and
network performance.
------------ LDAP MODULE -------------
o Try to maximize caching in the ldap server. In particular *always*
enable indexing of the uid attribute (equality index) and the
cn attribute (equality index - the cn attribute is used to search
for groups). Make the ldap server entry/directory cache memory sizes
as large as possible. In general try allocating as much memory as you
can afford to your ldap server.
o Put default profiles in ldap. User entries should only contain
non standard values in order to remain small and maximize the gains
of caching the user default/regular profiles.
o Enable group caching in groups.
------------ SQL MODULE --------------
o Use the sql module in the session section instead of the radutmp module.
It works *much* quicker.
o Create a multi column index for the (UserName,AcctStopTime) attributes especially
if you are using sql for double login detection.
o If you are using mysql and you do a lot of accounting try using InnoDB for the radacct
table instead of MyISAM (this should be the default in all schemas)
o Add AcctUniqueId in the accounting_stop query. Especially if you have a lot of access
servers or your NAS does not send very random Session-Ids. That way you will always have
one candidate row to search for, instead of all the rows that have the same AcctSessionId
------------ COUNTER MODULE ----------
o Enable noatime on the counter db files.
o Tune the cache_size configuration directive to match your needs.
The cache size should be set to 2-3 * number of available nas ports.
o Keep the database in a memory mapped file if you can help. Backup the
file every 10 mins to the disk and copy it to the memory mapped one
on server startup.
------------ RADUTMP MODULE ----------
o Enable noatime on the radutmp file
o Don't use it
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