pfSense - Low throughput since 2.5.x update

bennnnm07

Hi All,

Been having some issues with throughput since I upgraded from 2.4.5 to 2.5.x. I was forced to upgrade to due to an incompatibility with the Virgin Media hub being in modem mode and pfsense. I have Virgin Media Gigabit internet.

When doing internet speed tests and local iperf3's, I am maxing out at around 550Mbit. The iperf3's I have done between 2 physical interfaces on the APU board which are both Gbit. I have put openwrt on another APU4D4 board and get 940+Mbit when using iperf3.

I am currently using the APU4D4 with pfsense 2.5.2 but can replicate the issue on a APU2D4 with a fresh install of pfSense 2.5.2. This issue has only arose since moving off 2.4.5 for the reasons in the first sentence. I have no IPS or intensive packages installed and only have ACME certs as an addon package.

Is anyone else experiencing anything like this or has any answers? As I do no want to move away from pfSense.

bennnnm07

Anyone?

stephenw10

I would review the (now huge) APU thread since there is a LOT of information in there. Notably on running the correct Coreboot version.

Try running top -aSH while testing. Are you maxing out one CPU core? All cores?

Steve

bennnnm07

@stephenw10 Have you got a link to the APU thread?

  PID USERNAME    PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    C   TIME    WCPU COMMAND
    0 root        -76    -     0B   576K CPU0     0 171:57  82.02% [kernel{if_io_tqg_0}]
    0 root        -76    -     0B   576K CPU1     1 178:51  77.21% [kernel{if_io_tqg_1}]
    0 root        -76    -     0B   576K -        2 112:16  76.81% [kernel{if_io_tqg_2}]
    0 root        -76    -     0B   576K CPU3     3  87:50  68.46% [kernel{if_io_tqg_3}]
   11 root        155 ki31     0B    64K RUN      3  73.6H  24.58% [idle{idle: cpu3}]
   11 root        155 ki31     0B    64K RUN      1  72.7H  18.78% [idle{idle: cpu1}]```
   11 root        155 ki31     0B    64K RUN      2  73.2H  18.76% [idle{idle: cpu2}]
   11 root        155 ki31     0B    64K RUN      0  72.7H  14.34% [idle{idle: cpu0}]
  340 root         36    0   137M    40M accept   3   2:01   2.82% php-fpm: pool nginx (php-fpm){php-fpm}
99018 root         20    0    16M  6968K select   3   4:41   0.48% /usr/local/sbin/openvpn --config /var/etc/openvpn/server

Doesn't look like a CPU is being maxed.

Ben

fireodo

@bennnnm07 said in pfSense - Low throughput since 2.5.x update:

Have you got a link to the APU thread?

APU2 Experience

bennnnm07

Update
I have installed openwrt on the same hardware and I get 940Mbps+ when doing an internet speed test, whereas when using pfsense, I get 550Mbps maximum. Something is not right with the 2.5.x software.

stephenw10

Ok, and specifically you were seeing ~1Gbps with the same test in 2.4.5p1?

Can you test a 2.6 snapshot? There have been a number of improvements gone in since in 2.5.2 was released.

Steve