I -----Original Message----- From: Jim Thompson <[email protected]> Sender: "List" <[email protected]>Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 18:21:27 To: pfSense Support and Discussion Mailing List<[email protected]> Reply-To: pfSense Support and Discussion Mailing List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [pfSense] Giant lock is still there?
On May 17, 2014, at 5:16 PM, Leon Volfson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I had lots of issues in the past with the performance > and as I understood then - one of the biggest problems was > the Giant lock in pf. > > Since the 2.2 version is going to be FreeBSD 10 based I looked it up and > saw that there was some work done on this by Gleb Smirnoff a couple of > years ago. > > I was wondering whether it's actually been implemented and whether the 2.2 > is going to be Giant lock-free. > > Also - performance-wise, how much will I gain upgrading from 1.2.2? (old, I > know, but worked better than 1.2.3 in my case and was left like this since). What kind of CPU are you running? What type of Ethernet parts? What does your load look like? Even after answering these, it’s going to be a guess as to how your performance will change. Yes, Gleb’s changes to pf (which are in FreeBSD 10) are in pfSense 2.2. You could always try a snapshot. Jim _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
