Wcpu
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Is the column labeled wcpu under system performance the cpu usage. Because I run d525 and all 4 threads are at 100% and I'm not really sure why this is. I have a 75/35 connection and I don't run any packages I have a vpn set up but I'm not using it while seeing this usage.
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You mean in Diagnostics: System Activity: ?
I can't think where else you would see a 'wcpu' column. If so that is the output of the 'top' command.WCPU, when displayed, is the weighted cpu percentage
I would expect the 4 threads to be mostly idle. If they really are showing 100% used all the time the most common cause of that is having enabled device polling. That is the expected behaviour with device polling.
Steve
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Yes to everything and I checked device polling and it is not enabled as far as I can tell. But all 4 threads are pegged at 100% this is probably why my VPN is so slow when I do try to use it. Any ideas
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Need more information. Please provide output of pfSense shell command```
top -S -H -d1 -
I can do that but I just want to check the process. Diagnostics/Command Prompt then enter top -S -H -d1 in the command field. Also when I am on the main page of my router the visual bar graph represeting CPU use says 0-2% but I still get the 100.00% wcpu value for all 4 threads in the system activity under Diagnostics. Thanks for the help. I'm trying not to be such a noob.
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Diagnostics/Command Prompt then enter top -S -H -d1 in the command field.
That should do it. OR you can use the ssh shell command on a Linux/Unix system or the Putty programon Windows to open an interactive shell on your pfSense box, login, select option 8 (Shell) then type the command.
Putty is a free download.
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Are you sure it's not showing 100% idle?
The idle process uses up whatever cpu cycles are not being used by anything useful and is shown by 'top -SH' and opn the System Activity page. E.g.:[2.0.2-RELEASE][root@pfsense.fire.box]/root(2): top -SH last pid: 58916; load averages: 0.22, 0.08, 0.02 up 2+13:37:03 12:05:18 101 processes: 2 running, 83 sleeping, 16 waiting CPU: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle Mem: 45M Active, 15M Inact, 66M Wired, 1064K Cache, 59M Buf, 359M Free Swap: PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND 10 root 171 ki31 0K 8K RUN 59.5H 98.00% idle 262 root 76 20 3408K 1224K kqread 9:36 0.00% check_reload_status 11 root -32 - 0K 128K WAIT 8:01 0.00% {swi4: clock} 11 root -68 - 0K 128K WAIT 4:15 0.00% {irq18: em0 ath0+}A copy of your output will clear this up in seconds.
Steve
