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Hi All, I would first like to thank all those who have been
involved in developing PFSense and your ongoing support. You have a great
product going here. I have been evaluating firewalls for some time now and in
the last couple of months I have looked at, at least a dozen of them. PFSense
is probably about the top of them, it is better than Astaro because of their
licensing and their default configuration, and PFSense is better than the rest
for additional functionality and ease of configureability. I am only new to PFSense in the past few days, and
having never installed BSD of any kind, I found this easy going, considering I
have only been playing with Command line Linux (yes I know it is not linux) for
a couple of months after working solely on Windows Environment for the past 6
years and am now having fun playing with the BSD environment. I do have a couple of issues that I am not sure how
to get around, basically with the System WebGUI. The CPU Usage meter shows
constant usage at 80% to 86% consistantly. Yet when I use PUTTY and login to
the console remotely and run the command “TOP”, I get a completely
different result. Below is a direct copy: http://www.us-webmasters.com/FreeBSD/Unix-FreeBSD-Commands-Cheat-Sheet/Commands.txt last pid: 13805; load averages:
0.00, 0.00, 0.00 up 0+07:26:27 15:07:34 24 processes: 1 running, 23 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice,
0.9% system, 0.0% interrupt, 99.1% idle Mem: 7440K Active, 34M Inact, 42M Wired, 60M Buf,
410M Free Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free PID USERNAME THR PRI
NICE SIZE 706
root
1 121
0 3480K 1972K select
0:02 0.00% mini_httpd 550 _pflogd
1
-58 0 1536K 1164K
bpf 0:00
0.00% pflogd 703
root
1
76 0 1332K
888K select 0:00 0.00%
syslogd 548
root
1
-58 0 3676K 1812K
bpf 0:00
0.00% tcpdump 783
root
1
8 0
228K 124K nanslp 0:00
0.00% check_reload_st 549
root
1
-8 0 1188K 688K
piperd 0:00 0.00%
logger 774
root 1
8 0 1300K
984K nanslp 0:00
0.00% cron 726
proxy
1
4 0 1256K
852K kqread 0:00 0.00%
pftpx 13757 root
1 76
0 5580K 2652K select
0:00 0.00% sshd 125 root
1
76 0 1208K 752K
select 0:00
0.00% usbd 784
root
1
8 0 1580K 1224K
wait 0:00
0.00% login 13764 root
1
76 0 2336K 1608K
RUN 0:00
0.00% top 772
root
1
76 0 2828K 2212K
select 0:00
0.00% sshd 13763 root
1
20 0 2620K 2040K
pause 0:00
0.00% tcsh 13760 root
1
8 0 1632K 1228K
wait 0:00
0.00% sh 714
root
1
8 0 1620K 1052K
wait 0:00
0.00% sh 785
root
1
8 0 1624K 1024K
wait 0:00
0.00% sh 786
root
1 5
0 1628K 1088K ttyin
0:00 0.00% sh 237
root
1
84 0 1380K 988K
select 0:00
0.00% dhclient 524 _dhcp
1
76 0 1380K 1036K
select 0:00
0.00% dhclient 1149 root
1
8 0 1372K 1012K
nanslp 0:00 0.00%
msntp 198
root
1
76 0 496K 356K
select 0:00
0.00% devd 546
root
1
4 0 1472K 1120K
sbwait 0:00 0.00%
pflogd 710 nobody
1 138
0 1320K 940K select
0:00 0.00% dnsmasqq Test Machine Specs are: 2GHz Intel P4 512MB DDR 333 40GB HDD 4 X Netgear RLTK 8169 Gigabit Nics I have been going through the forums here and looking
how to get the system CPU usage to be accurately reflected correctly in the CPU
usage meter in the WebGUI. When I first installed PFSense and I saw the CPU
Usage meter, I had grave fears of system Baseline of CPU 80% maxed. But I have
only just worked out how to find the real figures and I am relieved that the
web graph is inaccurate. As you can see between the two, a completely different
story. The figures above are as live as can be, as it was
stopped midstream to get a record, as live it is constantly being updated and
copying is difficult. This test machine is currently not live on DSL, as I
don’t get access to DSL until November. But I have already ordered 2 My second query is that I have been requested to
setup one of these PFSense systems in conjunction with a VoIP Server for a
customer who has a resort and intends to provide internet access to their
customers on a user pay system. I have looked at the user configuration here
and was wondering if anyone has or is developing a method of extracting the
user usage of total time connected and data used into a Printable User Report
Statement showing either all users and or individual users total time connected
and total data transferred and downloaded during the time allocated until the
account access expires. When user system is disconnected and reconnected, data
transferred is appended to total all usage of the user account. I have also just noticed now that, while I took the
default PFSense Setup for Partitions, it appears that the default partitions do
not utilize the entire HDD, just the minimum required to work. Does PFSense
like larger partitions for the system or does it prefer standard sizes or does
it make any difference to performance? Any constructive suggestions about partitioning sizes
are welcome? Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Again GREAT JOB to ALL. Kindest
Regards, Craig Roy Horizon IT Consultants AUSTRALIAN RESELLER
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- [pfSense-discussion] New to PFSense Craig Roy
- Re: [pfSense-discussion] New to PFSense Scott Ullrich
- Re: [pfSense-discussion] New to PFSense Dan Swartzendruber
- RE: [pfSense-discussion] New to PFSense Craig FALCONER
