Thanks for the responses folks. I'm using Western Digital 1TB black drives connected to an LSI MegaRaid card. I use this setup extensively with FreeBSD on systems ranging, at the moment, from 8.1 to 11.0-RC2. I don't experience this type of slowdown on other systems.
Load is nil: [2.3.1-RELEASE][r...@pfsense.vicor.com]/root: uptime 12:33PM up 8 days, 20:01, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 [2.3.1-RELEASE][r...@pfsense.vicor.com]/root: swapinfo Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity /dev/label/swap0 33554428 0 33554428 0% [2.3.1-RELEASE][r...@pfsense.vicor.com]/root: Here's some hardware details: [2.3.1-RELEASE][r...@pfsense.vicor.com]/root: dmesg | grep mfi | head -n 4 mfi0: <LSI MegaSAS 1064R> mem 0xb8b00000-0xb8b0ffff,0xb8900000-0xb891ffff irq 18 at device 14.0 on pci4 mfi0: Using MSI mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 4.23 mfi0: FW MaxCmds = 1008, limiting to 128 [2.3.1-RELEASE][r...@pfsense.vicor.com]/root: mfiutil show drives mfi0 Physical Drives: 26 ( 932G) ONLINE <WDC WD1002FAEX-0 1D05 serial=WD-WCATRC323568> SATA E1:S0 27 ( 932G) ONLINE <WDC WD1002FAEX-0 1D05 serial=WD-WCATRC433639> SATA E1:S1 [2.3.1-RELEASE][r...@pfsense.vicor.com]/root: mfiutil show battery mfi0: Battery State: Manufacture Date: 10/30/2009 Serial Number: 887 Manufacturer: LS1111001A Model: 3598501 Chemistry: LION Design Capacity: 1215 mAh Full Charge Capacity: 62950 mAh Current Capacity: 61009 mAh Charge Cycles: 1231 Current Charge: 97% Design Voltage: 3700 mV Current Voltage: 3988 mV Temperature: 24 C Autolearn period: 30 days Next learn time: Tue Sep 6 01:11:33 2016 Learn delay interval: 0 hours Autolearn mode: enabled Status: LEARN_CYCLE_REQUESTED [2.3.1-RELEASE][r...@pfsense.vicor.com]/root: mfiutil cache mfid0 mfi0 volume mfid0 cache settings: I/O caching: disabled write caching: write-back write cache with bad BBU: enabled read ahead: none drive write cache: enabled [2.3.1-RELEASE][r...@pfsense.vicor.com]/root: On 09/02/2016 08:04, compdoc wrote: >> though the web interface is incredibly slow. > > I think I remember that if your CPU doesn't support a certain built-in > feature, the gui can be slow. > > But then it could be something else. Is cpu use high? > > > _______________________________________________ > pfSense mailing list > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lists.pfsense.org_mailman_listinfo_list&d=BQICAg&c=3BfiSO86x5iKjpl2b39jud9R1NrKYqPq2js90dwBswk&r=xejns4hCLY4pkxk_Fns5Pg&m=RTodpaPSj9S0aRTrROdiSa4KWFcl4wPVtScGnOpNV_Y&s=QuQxXctLjx0pn2HL8Cxzj0oiUpH8IWo07W6B8th6lJc&e= > > Support the project with Gold! > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__pfsense.org_gold&d=BQICAg&c=3BfiSO86x5iKjpl2b39jud9R1NrKYqPq2js90dwBswk&r=xejns4hCLY4pkxk_Fns5Pg&m=RTodpaPSj9S0aRTrROdiSa4KWFcl4wPVtScGnOpNV_Y&s=UBm9plxTzJ8dOls5IphGoEQgpg5sUtgawZknfjZVGBg&e= > > -- Dave Robison Senior Business Systems Analyst FIS Banking Solutions 510/621-2089 (w) 530/518-5194 (c) 510/621-2020 (f) da...@vicor.com david.robi...@fisglobal.com _____________ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold