Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 19:08:42 -0300 From: Einstein Oliveira <einstein@yawl.com.br> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, FreeBSD Net <net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Suggestions on a PPPoE server with mpd Message-ID: <4831FA6A.1080906@yawl.com.br>
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> Einstein Oliveira wrote:
>> Julian Elischer wrote:
>>> Einstein Oliveira wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> In an attempt to change from pppoed + ppp to mpd I'm having some
>>>> strange behaviour with the later on the same host that usually
>>>> handles 100+ clients with the former.
>>>>
>>>> Basically it's a i386 FreeBSD 6.3 system with mpd-5.1 and 1 GB Ram.
>>>> Users can connect without any problem.
>>>>
>>>> After a few minutes a SECOND mpd process is initiated and this one
>>>> consumes all idle processing of the host.
>>>>
>>>> Whoever is connected before that still remains connected but no new
>>>> user can get in anymore. Also logging stops being generated.
>>>>
>>>> The only solution is a killall -KILL on mpd.
>>>>
>>>> On another host I have the same configuration working as expected but
>>>> with less than 50 clients.
>>>>
>>>> Both configurations are the same from mpd.conf.sample.
>>>>
>>>> So I'm looking for any suggestions that somebody has been using to
>>>> handle that many pppoe connections (100+) with mpd.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> people have handled many more than 100 I think..
>>> however there is no reason that a 2nd should start up.
>>> what is teh PPID of the 2nd?
>>>
>>> are you sure that it isn't being started up by whatever starts up the
>>> first?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The second process has a bigger PID than the first and I'm using the
>> default /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mpd5 as startup script with mpd_enable="YES"
>> on /etc/rc.conf.
>
> what about the PPID? (Parent PID) ps alx shows this.
>
>>
here is the output of ps -alx:
0 12573 1 0 20 0 5424 3468 kserel Ss ?? 0:00.15
/usr/local/sbin/mpd5 -p /va
0 12629 12573 283 131 0 5424 3452 - R ?? 0:36.94
/usr/local/sbin/mpd5 -p /va
0 12707 11713 0 96 0 1528 868 - R+ p0 0:00.00
grep mpd5
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