Evgeny Yurchenko wrote:
Then what are the options for someone who has traffic more than
pfSense can take?
For a example, a streamer with packet length of 1840 and 50kpps,
that's 700Mb.
Is there a possibility of some sort of pfSense cluster?
Because as far as I understand, I have one of the fastest CPUs on the
market, not counting the i7 and I still can't pass more than 50kpps
with a packet length of 600, and that's just image files.
Thanks,
Lenny.
Lenny,
now I am experimenting a lot trying to find out why sometimes when
there is heavy load CARP-master switches to stand-by and never comes
back. I know this problem is different from yours but look at the
performance I get on pretty old hardware.
UDP-stream generator ----> pfSense CARP cluster on HP DL360 G3 ----->
receiver
This from receiver:
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Jitter Lost/Total
Datagrams
[ 4] 350.0-360.0 sec 1.05 GBytes 903 Mbits/sec 0.013 ms
12/767479 (0.0016%)
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Jitter Lost/Total
Datagrams
[ 4] 360.0-370.0 sec 1.05 GBytes 902 Mbits/sec 0.013 ms
334/767174 (0.044%)
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Jitter Lost/Total
Datagrams
[ 4] 370.0-380.0 sec 1.05 GBytes 901 Mbits/sec 0.013 ms
8/766545 (0.001%)
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Jitter Lost/Total
Datagrams
[ 4] 380.0-390.0 sec 1.05 GBytes 903 Mbits/sec 0.015 ms
19/767586 (0.0025%)
This is on pfSense:
last pid: 44303; load averages: 0.08, 0.02, 0.00 up 3+07:30:11
23:14:56
89 processes: 6 running, 66 sleeping, 17 waiting
CPU: 0.1% user, 0.0% nice, 0.2% system, 15.7% interrupt, 83.9% idle
Mem: 44M Active, 10M Inact, 39M Wired, 76K Cache, 17M Buf, 1906M Free
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
13 root 1 171 ki31 0K 8K CPU1 1 79.3H 100.00%
idle: cpu1
11 root 1 171 ki31 0K 8K CPU3 3 79.3H 100.00%
idle: cpu3
12 root 1 171 ki31 0K 8K RUN 2 79.1H 100.00%
idle: cpu2
40 root 1 -68 - 0K 8K CPU0 0 30:17 54.20%
irq30: bge1
14 root 1 171 ki31 0K 8K RUN 0 78.6H 41.06% idle:
cpu0
39 root 1 -68 - 0K 8K WAIT 0 18:12 4.05%
irq28: bge0
... and it results in approximately 76kpps.
And this is pretty old HP DL360 G3 with Broadcom NICs.
There must be some mystery in your set up. Your system MUST perform
better.
Evgeny.
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Evgeny,
Now I'm totally lost:(
I had this long thread this year on this issue here and eventually the
only thing the guys could advise me is to buy a newer server. I did.
And while I do see an improvement in performance (it's about twice it
was before) I'm still nowhere near what you have.
I realize that your traffic is lab UDP and mine is production TCP, so
let's say you'd get half of that in production, but then still - you're
only on 54% CPU. By the way, how come your second NIC is only loading
the CPU 4%? Shouldn't it be pretty much like the first one? It's what I
have.
I'm ready to show you my config/diagrams/whatever, but I need this issue
resolved.
Please?
Lenny.
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