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    High interrupt CPU usage in v2.7.1

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    • C
      chigh09
      last edited by

      I can also confirm this is happening on XCP-ng 8.2 here is my vmstat -i

      interrupt                          total       rate
      irq1: atkbd0                           2          0
      irq23: uhci0                          16          0
      cpu0:xen                          143780        161
      cpu1:xen                          142710        160
      irq2096: cpu0:r                      298          0
      irq2097: cpu0:itlb                  6922          8
      irq2098: cpu0:b                    35713         40
      irq2102: cpu1:r                      115          0
      irq2103: cpu1:itlb                  7700          9
      irq2104: cpu1:b                    39100         44
      irq2108: xen_et0:c0                86311         97
      irq2109: xen_et0:c1                85965         96
      irq2110: xenstore0                  3020          3
      irq2113: xbd0                      11017         12
      irq2114: xn0                         819          1
      irq2115: xn0                         957          1
      irq2116: xn0                        1699          2
      irq2117: xn0                        4956          6
      irq2118: xn1                        1114          1
      irq2119: xn1                         130          0
      irq2120: xn1                          90          0
      irq2121: xn1                         418          0
      irq2124: xn2                        1200          1
      irq2125: xn2                         273          0
      Total                             574325        643
      
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        onu
        last edited by onu

        Same issue with 2.7.1 on XCP-ng 8.2.1 Clean install for testing purposes, everything is default with the exception of DHCP service is disabled.

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        [2.7.2-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.home.arpa]/root: vmstat -i
        interrupt                          total       rate
        irq1: atkbd0                         128          0
        irq15: ata1                         1375          0
        irq23: uhci0                          16          0
        cpu0:xen                          176561         47
        cpu1:xen                          152210         41
        cpu2:xen                          180816         48
        cpu3:xen                          141422         38
        irq2096: cpu0:r                      274          0
        irq2097: cpu0:itlb                  6901          2
        irq2098: cpu0:b                    71712         19
        irq2102: cpu1:r                      249          0
        irq2103: cpu1:itlb                  7447          2
        irq2104: cpu1:b                    77524         21
        irq2108: cpu2:r                      230          0
        irq2109: cpu2:itlb                  7074          2
        irq2110: cpu2:b                    76266         20
        irq2114: cpu3:r                      101          0
        irq2115: cpu3:itlb                  7389          2
        irq2116: cpu3:b                    74840         20
        irq2120: xen_et0:c0                61626         16
        irq2121: xen_et0:c1                44576         12
        irq2122: xen_et0:c2                44672         12
        irq2123: xen_et0:c3                44854         12
        irq2124: xenstore0                  1437          0
        irq2129: xbd0                      30860          8
        irq2138: xn2                        5051          1
        irq2139: xn2                       11971          3
        irq2140: xn2                       47811         13
        irq2141: xn2                       22958          6
        irq2142: xn3                        1783          0
        irq2143: xn3                        1866          0
        irq2144: xn3                        8840          2
        irq2145: xn3                        1782          0
        Total                            1312622        351
        
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          onu @onu
          last edited by

          @onu sorry, 2.7.2 for pfSense

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            onu @onu
            last edited by

            just to be thorough, I installed Proxmox on the same system, then pfSense as a VM.

            way different results.

            prox1.png

            [2.7.2-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.home.arpa]/root: vmstat -i
            interrupt                          total       rate
            irq1: atkbd0                           2          0
            irq11: uhci0+                         20          0
            irq15: ata1                          449          0
            cpu0:timer                         19445         21
            cpu1:timer                         16727         18
            cpu2:timer                         14113         15
            cpu3:timer                         14768         16
            irq27: virtio_pci1                 12081         13
            irq29: virtio_pci2                  6783          7
            irq30: virtio_pci2                     1          0
            irq32: virtio_pci3                194987        212
            irq33: virtio_pci3                   278          0
            Total                             279654        304
            [2.7.2-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.home.arpa]/root: 
            
            
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              tmb
              last edited by

              I have the same issue. Running pfSense CE 2.7.2 in a VM on a XCP-ng host (8.2.1). Interrupt CPU usage is between 60-80%.

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                tmb @tmb
                last edited by tmb

                Some more data:

                Top on the vm:

                last pid: 23296;  load averages:  0.08,  0.14,  0.14                                                   up 0+18:46:31  10:20:03
                286 threads:   2 running, 251 sleeping, 33 waiting
                CPU:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system, 84.0% interrupt, 16.0% idle
                Mem: 85M Active, 142M Inact, 299M Wired, 56K Buf, 403M Free
                ARC: 171M Total, 46M MFU, 118M MRU, 4096B Anon, 841K Header, 5776K Other
                     143M Compressed, 278M Uncompressed, 1.94:1 Ratio
                Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free
                

                Top On the hypervisor:

                top - 10:16:34 up 9 days, 12:45,  1 user,  load average: 651.11, 650.81, 649.76
                Threads: 1763 total,   1 running, 1696 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
                %Cpu(s):  0.4 us,  0.7 sy,  0.0 ni, 98.6 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.3 st
                KiB Mem :  1329412 total,    39032 free,   892192 used,   398188 buff/cache
                KiB Swap:  1048572 total,   951548 free,    97024 used.   277052 avail Mem 
                

                vmstat -i

                interrupt                          total       rate
                irq1: atkbd0                        1094          0
                irq15: ata1                        44975          1
                irq23: uhci0                          20          0
                cpu0:xen                        23137567        342
                irq2102: xen_et0:c0              7093144        105
                irq2103: xenstore0                  8039          0
                irq2105: xbd0                     599431          9
                irq2106: xn0                      925434         14
                irq2107: xn0                      501940          7
                irq2108: xn0                      437785          6
                irq2109: xn0                     4301938         64
                irq2110: xn1                     2861373         42
                irq2111: xn1                     1348751         20
                irq2112: xn1                     1813507         27
                irq2113: xn1                     3541821         52
                irq2114: xn2                       44963          1
                irq2115: xn2                       15997          0
                irq2116: xn2                       50798          1
                irq2117: xn2                      133775          2
                irq2121: xn3                           6          0
                Total                           46862358        693
                
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                  Raghnall
                  last edited by Raghnall

                  I am seeing the same thing, though it looks like it might be an accounting bug and not a real issue - see: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=277231

                  Regardless, it does not seem to be related to the network cards or the version of Xen.
                  I see the same thing with only a physical Intel X520-DA2 passed through to the VM.
                  I also tested on XCP-ng 8.3-beta2 with Xen 4.13 as well as with Xen 4.17; all show the same issue.

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                    tmb @Raghnall
                    last edited by

                    @Raghnall Thank you for finding the bug report! I did search on the FreeBSD forums but couldn't find anything.

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                      pfsense2023
                      last edited by

                      Same thing here, running pfSense 2.7.2 on XCP-ng 8.3.0

                      It appears that this is just a bug on pfSense reporting itself because the VM stats show everything peacefully working.

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                        cougarmaster @pfsense2023
                        last edited by

                        @pfsense2023

                        In top it shows high interrupt
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