Suggestions on a PPPoE server with mpd

[Einstein Oliveira]

> 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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