Suggestions on a PPPoE server with mpd

[Julian Elischer]

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.

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