Hi. We've installed pfSense 1.2.3 on a couple of Coyote Point 550i appliences and so far we're very happy. It has 2GB of memory and a Xeon 3000-something CPU. It's run to run some sort of FreeBSD so Nanobsd should be well supported.
This week however, we started running some test through the firewall. We're stresstesting Varnish, a http accelerator. The problem is that the pfSense box seems to be the weakest link in the chain. Quickly we saw the state table run full. When we increased the size of the table we run out of CPU quite fast. Load (read using vmstat) jumps up to ~50. Is it probable that this is due to the overhead of state tracking? The book on pfSense doesn't really have any good advice and google hasn't turned up much. Is there a high performance tuning guide? TIA, Per. -- Per Buer, Varnish Software Phone: +47 21 54 41 21 / Mobile: +47 958 39 117 / skype: per.buer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
