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      sbn
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      It is slow just doing a basic install, without any packages, on hard drives between 6-10GB. I know memory is not an issue has I have put between 256-512MB. Most of the time the issue is not just speed, but just unresponsive. Since the pages are loading up through a LAN that discounts bandwidth. I am going to see what the new beta version does and get back.

      One disclaimer that I should point out is I do not run the live CD, these are all installed on the hard drive. That is one reason I am looking at Pfsense over m0n0wall is the installation feature which allows extra packages. At the moment although m0n0wall can be installed on a HD, there are no packages available.

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        Guest
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        I have pfSense installed on about 6 different machines, ranging from 300mhz Celerons, up to a Pentium 3.  I have never experienced slowness with the webgui on any of these boxes.  And since lighty became the http server du jour, the webui got even snappier.

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          billm
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          If the shaper is enabled, please turn it off (especially if you have a slow WAN connection) and try again.

          –Bill

          pfSense core developer
          blog - http://www.ucsecurity.com/
          twitter - billmarquette

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            Leoandru
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            I started using pfSense just last week and I dont particularly find the wegui slow, sometimes unresponsive but not slow.

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              sullrich
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              @Leoandru:

              I started using pfSense just last week and I dont particularly find the wegui slow, sometimes unresponsive but not slow.

              If you have 128 megs of ram, its going to speed up quite a bit now that fast-cgi is enabled and fully working for beta 2.

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                sullrich
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                On beta 2 with a Soekris 4501, the average page load time is now 3 seconds, down from 9-12s.

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                  hoba
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                  Most pages are even below 2 seconds now on the wrap (benched with fasterfox)  ;D

                  I just benched comparable pages (captive portal) between a m0n0 1.21 and pfsense 1.0beta2 and they are equal when using the pfsense-theme (m0n0 like one with the side navigation). Even when using the metallic theme most pages are loading in less than 2 seconds now.

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                    rds_correia
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                    So hurry up with b2  ;D.
                    Just kidding guys, take your time ;).
                    Cheers

                    pfSense 2.2.4 running on a HP DL385 G5
                    WAN bce(4) + LAN em(4) + OPTn em(4) with 10 VLANs + Snort + PPTP VPN soon to be trashed by OVPN

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                      sbn
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                      Last night I installed the latest beta version on a 400Mhz w/256 RAM. After connecting to the GUI and hopping through the setup pages, I went to the sections to configure for my use. Setup password ok, snmp ok, then went to the IPSEC page and from there it went down hill. I filled out the parameters for my VPN connection, then went I went to see the page just hung. After a while I just figured it wasn't going to load. So I tried to browse to the index page, though it never loaded. I reboot the machine and was never able to pull up a gui.

                      It was then I decided to pull swap out the drive and install in a 600Mhz w/768 RAM. This actually was worse. Upon first load of the webgui it came up fine. But the first link I hit (next?) it just hanged there. Never did get the gui up again.

                      Is there some way I can look at a log/debug of this? I don't think what I am describing is helping any in terms of determining the cause of the problem.

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                        sullrich
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                        Did you do a full reinstall or an upgrade?  If you did a upgrade please reinstall from ISO.

                        Also, please start a new thread as this has nothing to do with the webGUI being slow, broken is completely different.

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