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    6100 Max randomly got slower

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      mrsunfire
      last edited by mrsunfire

      Running my 6100 Max with a gigabit fiber connection via PPPoE (igc.0) was fine since yesterday or so. Archived my 1070 MBit/s download as it should be. Today I only get around 800-900 MBit/s no matter what I do. Of course I did a reboot of everything, tested different clients, servers and so on. Also tested with my linode vServer with iperf3.
      On my chinese pfSense box I'm still getting 1070 MBit/s. Anything seems to throttle but I don't know what because I didn't change the config since it was working.
      Maybe it's because of the interrupts (see below)?

      Traffic graph shows spikes and not at flat line as usual.

      Screenshot 2023-01-22 102010.jpg

      Don't know where to start and can't explain the issue.

      These are my system tunables I have:

      Screenshot 2023-01-22 102120.jpg

      systat -vmstat 1
      

      Screenshot 2023-01-22 102640.jpg

      Netgate 6100 MAX

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        SteveITS Galactic Empire @mrsunfire
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        @mrsunfire Are all NICs higher than 1Gbit? 940 or so is about the max on gigabit Ethernet.

        Pre-2.7.2/23.09: Only install packages for your version, or risk breaking it. Select your branch in System/Update/Update Settings.
        When upgrading, allow 10-15 minutes to restart, or more depending on packages and device speed.
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          mrsunfire @SteveITS
          last edited by

          @steveits Yes they are. But I got it fixed. Don't know why but now I have to set net.isr.dispatch=deferred in system tunables. After that it works fine again.

          Netgate 6100 MAX

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            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            That's commonly required for PPPoE. Especially at high bandwidths like that.

            I would guess that when you first tested it the one CPU core that can receive traffic on PPPoE happened to not be in use by any other process.

            Steve

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