Speed Shift Intel 6100T
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I am running 24.03 and I have turned off hyperthreading. and I am using Speed Shift and core level control I have noticed my PCH0 running high. Is there a way I should adjust for this? I have tried a few things. It was not as high in the old version when I added the tunables and I was running hyperthreading. Pfsense is not working hard right now. It is around 9%. In terms of power performance I have tried 75, 80, and I am now on 70.
Should I try power D?
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Speedshift is superior to Speedstep (powerd) in most ways.
I have a 6100T device and run it with Speesshift set at 80. I have hyper-threading enabled.
Steve
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@coxhaus
So, I turned hyperthreading on again and it seems to be doing the same thing. I set to 80 also. I verified speedshift is turned on in UEFI.
Is the PCH a separate chip? I wonder if it has a heat sink on it with bad thermal past? My PC is a Dell OptiPlex 3040. I am kind of locked into this PC.
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@coxhaus Is your frequency changing as expected or are you just looking at temperature?
Note reading the frequency can cause a frequency boost.
Just having read other threads IIRC people have varying results at a given setting...try setting to progressively higher values...85/90/etc.
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Yeah the PCH is the Intel chipset. We have seen some things report obviously bad values from that driver but yours looks reasonable. Might just run hot. 51°C is not necessarily an issue.
Are you actually seeing a problem here?
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@stephenw10 No real problem. It is just hotter running 24.03 than I have ever seen it.
Actually, now it seems to run better with hyper threading on. It seems a little smoother and I am now down to 3%.
I also went back to Forwarding instead of unbound. Using 24.03 Forwarding seems as fast as unbound to me. I use QUAD9 for DNS. Using it I will not hit China servers requesting DNS.
If you are using unbound and Pfblocker with China blocked. Is the block going to be on the LAN side or the WAN side? If you block it on the WAN then the packet will be sent to China and blocked on the return trip. If it is blocked on the LAN no packet will be sent. Blocking on the LAN can cause a performance hit if there are a lot of ACLs. This is one of the reasons I use a layer 3 switch for my local routing. My local traffic would not need to pass all those ACLs for China. I had pages back in the old days under Pfsense 2.x. Chinese universities also.
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@coxhaus the DNS response would be allowed by the open outbound state.
Where the block is, is a pfB setting. Where do the rules appear?
Interface rules can’t block outbound, only floating.
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@SteveITS I am not sure about the last rule you stated? I don't have any floating rules.
But it sounds like if you are using unbound it will send packets to China for DNS and you can't block it. I guess I need to stay with Forwarding for DNS to QUAD9.
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@coxhaus Only floating rules have a direction.
WAN/LAN/etc are only for inbound packets on that interface.
Unbound can forward, but if you do that uncheck the DNSSEC option which is on by default.
