Pfsense super slow all of a sudden
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have been enjoying pfsense for about 3 months problem free.
Today however the internet became very unstable, it would often not load webpages at all, ….
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Just to say that I have noticed the same problem On SOME OF MY INsTALATIONS !!!!
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Hi! I'm experiencing the same problems, too. To clarify things, the whole story.
I have been using pfSense for approx. a year. Until July I ran it on VMWare, without any problems at all. Then I decided to build a dedicated system for pfSense.At first, it had two crappy Realtek 8139 cards, and it worked somehow, but later I bought two used i82559-based cards (fxp driver). They seemed to work fine, but at some point I started to have problems with my ISP connection (after some time it would be lost, so I had to unplug the cable and plug it back). So I bought another NIC, i82544-based GbE PCI card (em driver), and set it up as LAN, while replacing WAN with the second fxp card.
Then the new trouble appeared. The download speed is being limited to about 1 Mbps, while upload speed is unrestricted (I have 8.5 megabit symmetric ethernet connection to my ISP). At first, I thought that traffic shaper was configured. And indeed, so was the case. I tried to disable it, but it didn't help. I tried to reinstall pfSense from scratch, but the problem persisted. Then I connected my old Linksys WRT54GL, and download speed became normal. Then I tried to boot pfSense from Live CD, and download speed returned to be about 1 Mbps! So it makes me think that there's a problem with the NIC or its driver, but at the very beginning that card worked fine…
Can anybody help me find out what the problem is? Or at least, what shall I do next?
P.S. Sorry for my English...
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Don't use fxp (intel cards) on versions that use FreeBSD 7 (1.2.1 and higher). There is an issue with the driver when there is an Adaptec SCSI (or perhaps other Adaptec stuff) card in the machine. there is a low level conflict with naming. Hopefully this will be fixed soon. I don't know if this is the case in your system, but well worth looking into.
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I have same problem,
I was try to reinstall new version but is working well for 1 or 2 day and after that the speed become too slow. This is really trouble to me any body can give me a help?
I was check the system but not find any problem
This is system information
System information
Name load.local
Version 1.2.3-RC2
built on Wed Aug 12 08:34:03 EDT 2009
Platform pfSense
Uptime 2 days, 14:49
State table size 6390/50000
Show states
MBUF Usage 1286 /3465
CPU usage 3%
Memory usage 7%
SWAP usage 0%
Disk usage 0% -
i have same issue, very very slow.
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i have same issue, very very slow.
You haven't given us any information to work with. A place to begin would be to complete the sentence "I did … and I saw ... but I expected to see ... " For example, "I pinged my ISP's router from a LAN client and the response time was over 5 seconds but I expected it to be much quicker than that because my ISP link is a 100Mbps fibre link and nothing else was using it at the time."
I understand its difficult to know what information is significant but after reading the pfSense forums for at least a couple of years I would say its far more common for people reporting problems to provide too little information than for people reporting problems to provide too much information.
There are many things that could cause the perception of slowness. Giving some information about what you were doing and why you thought it was slow is highly likely to hasten resolution of your problem by helping indicate which area or areas should be investigated.
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A shot in the dark: Try editing your /boot/loader.conf file and commenting out the nmbclusters as follows```
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Any solution to solved this trouble?
My problem is the same. Now I try new version 2 Beta 1 but is work well for a few day after that the load balancing working so terrible.
We have a network around 400 clients, 20 VLANs for them, 5 internet connection and load balancing by Pfsense. I only use load balancing outbound for http service but now i must disable load balancing service.
In early morning the speed is load very good but late when all staff starting to work at that time the number of connection increase and pfsense starting unstable after few day find solution now i must cancel to use pfsense for load balancing.
Any idea can held us find good solution in this case?
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Yeah eastlink.ca seem to come up all the time online for server problems, etc! I think you guys infrastructure is on a faultline…lol
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Any solution to solved this trouble?
I'm locking this thread because it's been getting hijacked for 2 years, and the initial problem was determined to be an ISP issue (which is almost always the cause of such problems).
If you have a performance problem, start a new thread and post details (not just "it's slow").