[Serusers] Multiple Registration Servers

[Senad J]

serusers-bounces at lists.iptel.org wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> This is a long email, so please bare with me...
>
> Up until now we have used our primary SER serve as both registrar and
> call routing engine.  However, we've recently hit a growth point
> where the registration load on our servers is high enough that it's
> affecting our call routing.
>
> We currently have about 4,000 IAD's all registering every 5 minutes.

why every 5 minutes?

If you set it to highr figure, that will automatically reduce registration
load !


> So - my question is .. How do I take load off of the primary server??
>
> Would implementing radius for authentication fix this problem?  I am
> very familiar with radius (using Freeradius) and could easily set
> this up, but I would prefer not to go to the trouble if it's not
> going to help with the load.
>
> Has anyone else had an issue with client authentication via MySQL and
> auth_db causing a high load with SER?

is your MYSQL on same host as SER?