Suggestions on a PPPoE server with mpd

[Einstein Oliveira]

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?

Right now I can't try to run mpd to verify this information but as soon 
as I can I'll send this to the list.

> 
> are you sure that it isn't being started up by whatever starts up the 
> first?
> 
> 

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