Updated today to latest snap - very slow

markky

I went ahead and opened a redmine ticket for this:
https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/2401

Here's a bit more detail for what you described. The fact that flushfiles is flushing out so much on a quiescent filesystem is rather suspect (as a counter point, run lsof and look for writeable files).

The next line is a tty interrogation with ^T
load: 0.22 cmd: mount 2123 [biowr] 5.82r 0.02u 0.08s 7% 1044k

This is the alternate ddb entry, "~^b"

~KDB: enter: Break sequence on console

moullas

So…. has this been abandoned or still actively looked into?

Weekend coming up, have time for testing :-D

jimp

It hasn't been forgotten, but I haven't had any new leads to try. Ermal thought it might be something that was recently fixed on FreeBSD 8-STABLE, but I wasn't able to make usable patches out of the commits I found so for me that was a dead end (someone else might give it a try)

Beerman

Any (good) News? :)

databeestje

None yet

tritron

It seems that the bug still exist interface is very slow unless I execute /etc/rc.conf_mount_rw in ssh. So workaround is to run /etc/rc.conf_mount_rw before making any changes

jimp

We're still aware it's an issue, there is an open bug in redmine for it.

phil.davis

I noticed that Seth Mos has committed "Hopefully tackle the slow nanobsd writes. Redmine ticket #2401" on Github. I guess this is probably built in the version I just updated to:
2.1-BETA0 (i386)
built on Tue Jun 19 20:53:01 EDT 2012
FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p3

Is there any particular sequence of operations that we can/should test to help to see if the issue is resolved or improved?
(I must say, I haven't really noticed the issue on various test nanoBSD installs on my Alix 2D3 in recent weeks!)

jimp

It didn't help, unfortunately.

Timing the mount rw then ro calls is sufficient, see the existing redmine ticket for it.

eweri

Just installed snapshot pfSense-2.1-DEVELOPMENT-2g-i386-nanobsd-20120629-1927
still the same problem

EmL

Same here … had no problems with 2.0.X on my alix. After upgrading to 2.1 about 1 month ago WebGUI is very slow from that point, especially when making changes. After upgrading to latest snapshot and reboot now i'd to restart Webconfigurator via console to have access to my pfSense. I hope the issue can be solved in 2.1, cause i have many alix boards out at customers and this behavior would prevent me to upgrade these boxes ...

phil.davis

I also noticed that on recent updates (I think from the beginning of July), after the install reboot, I have to use the console to restart the web configurator. Reboots after that have been fine. So something is happening on the first reboot (of course it reinstalls packages at that time, but that should not kill the web configurator). This web configurator restart issue is probably a different thing to the slow RW mounting. I have also had other web configurator issues recently - see http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,51188.0.html - maybe there is some common issue here in a recent build that is effecting the web configurator?

szop

Any news on that? I've updated yesterday to 2.1-BETA0 (i386) built on Thu Oct 11 and having the sames issues like described by you all. The GUI is very fast but when I have to do some changes or for example creating a new OpenVPN account, I have to wait like 1-2 minutes until one step finishes. I'm running on nanobsd (4g).

Cheers,
Szop

xbipin

@szop:

Any news on that? I've updated yesterday to 2.1-BETA0 (i386) built on Thu Oct 11 and having the sames issues like described by you all. The GUI is very fast but when I have to do some changes or for example creating a new OpenVPN account, I have to wait like 1-2 minutes until one step finishes. I'm running on nanobsd (4g).

Cheers,
Szop

the bug report is still open, no progress on it as of now, seems something from freebsd

szop

Okay, thanks for the fast reply. Can you provide me a link to the bug report?

Cheers,
Szop

xbipin

http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/2401

Supermule

Only nanobsd affected?

xbipin

at least for now

charliem

I don't see any freebsd bugs that clearly jump out, but this has been reported in the forums:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=33021&highlight=remount

No other replies, and with USB rather than CF, but maybe a hint it's something in 8.3

clarknova

Today I updated from 2.0.1 to 2.1-BETA0 snapshot from 2 days ago. Disastrous. Both the web UI and the shell are unresponsive for several seconds at a time. Reloading the web configurator didn't help. When I was able to run top, both CPU cores are showing 90%+ idle.

As a bonus, several of my local networks have no internet, for reasons that aren't immediately apparent. Also, the traffic graphs on the dahsboard, other than those for the WAN and LAN interfaces, are displaying their OPTx names rather than their assigned aliases, but this is the least of my concerns.

Thank goodness for dual slices.