Re: STAT_MAX_PORT_COUNT

Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 00:53:46 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.radius.bugs
Organization Farlep-Internet
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> One more question... the size of radwtmp, what happens if this gets to be about 1Gb?
> 
> wont it have any performance inpact?
 
It will depend on the underlying filesystem. Obviously, appends to a file
of such size will take longer than usual.

> can it be purged seeing as i store logs in an sql database?

It is reasonable to purge it at a regular intervals. For example, on
my site the cron job is set up to do so once a month.
 
> i think i need it for the simul logins, right?

No, radutmp is used for that (it doesn't grow, by the way). Radwtmp is
used by radlast.

Regards,
Sergey