Suggestions on a PPPoE server with mpd

[Julian Elischer]

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?