This turned out to be a strange issue. I decided to test another system and see if I the performance issues were the same. The new system was about double the clock speed and twice the cores. The performance was good. The degradation was no where near to the first system.
I decided to go back to bare-metal and re-run the iperf tests on system 1. I saw the same terrible performance results. Something changed, I tried to power-cycle the system but no change. I then decided to do a BIOS reset. After the reset the bare-metal iperf tests returned to their good levels. I re-installed SmartOS and Opnsense and the iperf numbers looked good. Tests from an external box to SmartOS averaged 830Mb/s and SmartOS to an external box was around 930Mb/s. External box to External box through Opnsense KVM zone was around 450Mb/s. I am good now thanks for the reply. On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Robert Mustacchi <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/14/16 19:14 , Greg Treantos wrote: > > I wanted to test opnsense and vyos under smartos. They both installed > fine > > but the performance is terrible throughput is 78Mb/s using iperf3 -b 0 > from > > a host on the lan side to a host on the wan side. Both are on 1Gb > networks. > > If I run iperf from inside vyos out to the lan I see 500Mb/s and from > vyos > > to the wan about 450Mb/s. However from the lan to vyos I see the 78Mb/s > and > > from Wan to vyos I see 60Mb/s. So the issue is with inbound requests. CPU > > util on the VM is around 12% during the test. > > > > you can see the VM config here http://pastebin.com/nMfLDyRW . The system > > hosting SmartOS is a Partaker mini computer with an Intel i5 processor > and > > Intel NICs. bare-metal vyos gets approx 925Mb/s and Opnsense (pfsense > > clone) sees 725Mb/s. > > > > Can anyone help me with troubleshooting the issue? > > It may be useful to go through this and look at the general resource > usage of the system following the USE method. For example, have you > allocated all the CPU, etc. that the guest needs. Perhaps also look at > kvmstat to start getting a sense of what the system is doing. > > Robert > -- Greg http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregtreantos ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
