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    • M
      Mr. Jingles
      last edited by

      @KOM:

      You need the DNS server to service your LAN, no (?).

      If they're in an AD environment, for instance, then they would be using MS DNS on some other server.

      'This why you know these things; I didn't think about other servers doing these things. But, of course, in corporate environments it makes sense to not bother the firewall with these other tasks.

      My setting basically is SOHO Ltd. GmbH AG NV Sarl SPRL Inc.( ;D ).

      So I don't have different servers for different roles (whereas I completely understand the need for them in big companies). I have a box with 6 users, me and 5 women doing accounting stuff.

      6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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        doktornotor Banned
        last edited by

        @Mr.:

        Btw: pic1: CPU doesn't update in 10 seconds; it never updates.

        Well this is normally fixed by wiping your browser cache. (And no, no idea why, don't ask me…)

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        • KOMK
          KOM
          last edited by

          I have a box with 6 users, me and 5 women doing accounting stuff.

          Heh, "accounting stuff"…

          I would like to see this box you keep your women in.

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          • johnpozJ
            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
            last edited by

            Can you run any more services on this box?

            You need both snort and suricata – really?

            Pages on my webgui doesn't even take 1001, going to the main dashboard page with lots of widgets on it from a say the service status page takes 1001, 1002

            An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools
            If you get confused: Listen to the Music Play
            Please don't Chat/PM me for help, unless mod related
            SG-4860 24.11 | Lab VMs 2.7.2, 24.11

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            • M
              Mr. Jingles
              last edited by

              @doktornotor:

              @Mr.:

              Btw: pic1: CPU doesn't update in 10 seconds; it never updates.

              Well this is normally fixed by wiping your browser cache. (And no, no idea why, don't ask me…)

              It once again proves I'm not normal (tell me something new): doesn't solve it (cache gets deleted automatically on browser close). I did notice it is a little bit faster in Firefox, but not that much faster.

              6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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              • M
                Mr. Jingles
                last edited by

                @KOM:

                I have a box with 6 users, me and 5 women doing accounting stuff.

                Heh, "accounting stuff"…

                I would like to see this box you keep your women in.

                Pic1: only when the IRS comes.
                Pic2: the empire I'm secretly building.

                ![women in box.jpg](/public/imported_attachments/1/women in box.jpg)
                ![women in box.jpg_thumb](/public/imported_attachments/1/women in box.jpg_thumb)
                ![the empire.jpg](/public/imported_attachments/1/the empire.jpg)
                ![the empire.jpg_thumb](/public/imported_attachments/1/the empire.jpg_thumb)

                6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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                  Mr. Jingles
                  last edited by

                  @johnpoz:

                  Can you run any more services on this box?

                  Yes, look in system/packages/available -> there's many more there (don't tell me you didn't know this, John :o ).

                  @johnpoz:

                  You need both snort and suricata – really?

                  @Mr.:

                  For those wondering: Snort runs on WAN2, Suricata on WAN1 (testing). Bill said this is no problem.

                  6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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                  • ?
                    Guest
                    last edited by

                    For those wondering: Snort runs on WAN2, Suricata on WAN1 (testing).

                    Not really,

                    Bill said this is no problem.

                    Hmm, from moin point of view I was seeing on an Alix board is was slow, on an Alix APU board it
                    was faster but not fast and on an C2758 it is really wicked fast. But mostly pending on what you
                    have all installed, running services, installed widgets and so on.

                    Double IDS/IPS should be narrowing down this also a really bit I think.

                    I did notice it is a little bit faster in Firefox, but not that much faster.

                    What kind of services you are running?
                    Squid, SuidGuard, HAVP, DNS, DPI, VLANs, heavy QoS,…........

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                    • M
                      Mr. Jingles
                      last edited by

                      @BlueKobold:

                      For those wondering: Snort runs on WAN2, Suricata on WAN1 (testing).

                      Not really,

                      Yes, really ( ;D ) (Meaning: what did you mean?)

                      @BlueKobold:

                      Bill said this is no problem.

                      Hmm, from moin point of view I was seeing on an Alix board is was slow, on an Alix APU board it
                      was faster but not fast and on an C2758 it is really wicked fast. But mostly pending on what you
                      have all installed, running services, installed widgets and so on.

                      Isn't my CPU and my 16GB RAM slightly more powerful than Alix?

                      @BlueKobold:

                      Double IDS/IPS should be narrowing down this also a really bit I think.

                      What do you mean? CPU = 28%, RAM = 1,8GB (13%). That's not shocking I think, and nothing that would prevent the GUI-subsystem from responding.
                      @BlueKobold:

                      I did notice it is a little bit faster in Firefox, but not that much faster.

                      What kind of services you are running?
                      Squid, SuidGuard, HAVP, DNS, DPI, VLANs, heavy QoS,…........

                      Those in the screenshot + traffic shaping  ;D

                      6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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                      • GertjanG
                        Gertjan
                        last edited by

                        @Mr.:

                        @BlueKobold:

                        For those wondering: Snort runs on WAN2, Suricata on WAN1 (testing).

                        Not really,

                        Yes, really ( ;D ) (Meaning: what did you mean?)

                        He means that even when each one deserves ONE NIC, not two, they are still running both at the same time on the box.
                        These two are cycle eaters.
                        Slow GUI could mean: you are running out of these cycles.

                        [ Or, other broken stuff like a brainless DNS would do even better ]

                        Btw: the "updating in 10 secondes" could be the result of a slow GUI problem - OR : you have a browser cache problem, some old Java scripts are still present: nuke browser cache to be sure.

                        Access your pfSEnse box using the medic entrance : put on your gloves, and SSH in.
                        When you see  the menu, go for option 8, don't worry, it dark in there, that's ok.
                        Type this command
                        top

                        Show us a screen (text !!) copy using the "Code" bbcode.
                        Something like this

                        last pid: 19531;  load averages:  0.16,  0.17,  0.13                                up 9+00:53:58  13:05:15
                        71 processes:  1 running, 70 sleeping
                        CPU:  0.4% user,  0.0% nice,  0.2% system,  0.4% interrupt, 99.0% idle
                        Mem: 14M Active, 295M Inact, 153M Wired, 192K Cache, 204M Buf, 1489M Free
                        Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
                        
                          PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME    WCPU COMMAND
                        81667 root        1  20    0   223M 33072K nanslp  0   0:00   0.29% php-fpm
                         5528 root        1  20    0 65132K 17360K kqread  1  28:15   0.00% lighttpd
                        20764 root        1  20    0 12456K  2168K select  1   5:18   0.00% apinger
                         4879 root        1  20    0 52844K  6960K kqread  1   1:54   0.00% lighttpd
                        94541 nobody      1  20    0 30264K  4960K select  1   1:43   0.00% dnsmasq
                        57214 root        1  28    0 49820K 12296K select  1   0:52   0.00% perl
                        32771 root        1  52   20 17136K  2700K wait    1   0:34   0.00% sh
                        71546 root        1  20    0 18984K  2768K select  1   0:32   0.00% usbhid-ups
                        87976 root        1  20    0 50800K 10828K kqread  0   0:23   0.00% lighttpd
                        31143 root        1  20    0 14656K  2340K select  0   0:23   0.00% syslogd
                        29813 dhcpd       1  20    0 24844K 13708K select  0   0:23   0.00% dhcpd
                          243 root        1  25    0   219M 21308K kqread  0   0:22   0.00% php-fpm
                        30581 dhcpd       1  20    0 24972K 11736K select  1   0:20   0.00% dhcpd
                        20996 root        1  20    0 28344K  3008K piperd  0   0:19   0.00% rrdtool
                        16790 root        1  20    0 16804K  2308K bpf     0   0:13   0.00% filterlog
                         6307 root        1  20    0 43608K  6344K select  0   0:12   0.00% mpd5
                        80158 root        1  20    0 28168K 18052K select  1   0:09   0.00% ntpd
                        98277 root        1  20    0 14532K  2224K select  0   0:08   0.00% radvd
                        35631 root        1  23    0   227M 41308K accept  1   0:07   0.00% php
                        74158 root        1  20    0 18844K  2572K select  0   0:07   0.00% upsd
                         3844 root        5  52    0 27568K  3128K uwait   0   0:06   0.00% filterdns
                        56128 root        1  20    0   223M 34980K accept  1   0:06   0.00% php
                        76711 uucp        1  20    0 18832K  2592K nanslp  1   0:05   0.00% upsmon
                        56214 root        1  21    0   223M 34976K accept  1   0:05   0.00% php
                        26234 root        1  20    0   223M 34980K accept  1   0:04   0.00% php
                        10743 root        1  21    0   223M 34976K accept  1   0:03   0.00% php
                        10397 root        1  20    0   227M 41796K accept  1   0:02   0.00% php
                         6188 root        1  25    0 12404K  1916K nanslp  1   0:01   0.00% minicron
                         8910 root        1  21    0   227M 41500K accept  0   0:01   0.00% php
                        34702 root        1  20    0 16664K  2296K nanslp  0   0:01   0.00% cron
                         8161 root        1  20    0   227M 41788K accept  0   0:01   0.00% php
                        17633 root        1  20    0 18780K  2376K select  0   0:01   0.00% inetd
                         7340 root        1  20    0   227M 41904K accept  1   0:01   0.00% php
                         8855 root        1  20    0   219M 22360K wait    0   0:00   0.00% php
                         9200 root        1  20    0   223M 34972K accept  1   0:00   0.00% php
                        42716 root        1  40    0 12404K  1916K nanslp  1   0:00   0.00% minicron
                          272 root        1  20    0 13160K  4476K select  1   0:00   0.00% devd
                          259 root        1  40   20 19024K  2588K kqread  1   0:00   0.00% check_reload_status
                         6702 root        1  52    0   219M 22360K wait    1   0:00   0.00% php
                         8598 root        1  26    0   219M 22360K wait    0   0:00   0.00% php
                         7146 root        1  52    0   219M 22360K wait    0   0:00   0.00% php
                         5022 root        1  52    0   219M 22360K wait    1   0:00   0.00% php
                        

                        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                        • jimpJ
                          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                          last edited by

                          2.3 will have a shiny new Bootstrap-based GUI, so that should at least be different, if not faster. :-)

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                          • M
                            Mr. Jingles
                            last edited by

                            @Gertjan:

                            don't worry, it dark in there, that's ok.

                            ;D ;D ;D

                            (Bedankt GJ  :P )

                            It's not a cache problem, cache is cleared on every browser close.

                            Topperdepop (I'm fine with that, as long as it isn't 'De Toppers', although I admire their lighting engineers (this is Dutch secret insiders knowledge  8) ;D ;D ;D )):

                            
                             last pid: 16659;  load averages:  0.38,  0.49,  0.49                                                                                                                                                                 up 4+02:10:34  17:18:00
                            112 processes: 1 running, 103 sleeping, 8 zombie
                            CPU: 12.4% user, 18.5% nice,  3.0% system,  0.2% interrupt, 65.9% idle
                            Mem: 679M Active, 4992M Inact, 1389M Wired, 492K Cache, 1340M Buf, 8676M Free
                            Swap: 32G Total, 32G Free
                            
                              PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME    WCPU COMMAND
                            34328 root          2  40   20   997M   605M nanslp  1 365:43  33.98% snort
                            20752 proxy         1  27    0   460M   369M kqread  0  14:54   8.40% squid
                            34395 root          2  40   20  1841M  1253M nanslp  1  55:18   0.98% snort
                            68239 root         15  20    0   243M   119M nanslp  1  41:21   0.10% ntopng
                            68918 root          8  40   20  1748M  1645M uwait   1   2:27   0.10% suricata
                            28135 root          1  20    0 21720K  5864K select  1  56:32   0.00% openvpn
                            27561 root        150  20    0   108M 22960K uwait   1   2:28   0.00% filterdns
                            64168 root          3  24    0 24572K  5656K uwait   0   2:04   0.00% redis-server
                             2077 nobody        1  20    0 19060K  3996K select  1   1:51   0.00% darkstat
                            11438 unbound       2  20    0   154M   123M kqread  0   1:21   0.00% unbound
                            33291 root          1  20    0 14656K  2424K select  0   1:17   0.00% syslogd
                            37369 root          1  20    0 12456K  2172K select  0   1:04   0.00% apinger
                            92995 root          1  20    0 21720K  5896K select  0   0:39   0.00% openvpn
                            44385 root          1  20    0 54884K 12808K kqread  0   0:31   0.00% lighttpd
                            28647 root          1  20    0 16804K  2844K bpf     0   0:27   0.00% filterlog
                            34210 root          2  40   20   787M   392M nanslp  0   0:23   0.00% snort
                            81842 root          1  20    0 14540K  1984K select  1   0:23   0.00% powerd
                            19443 root          1  52   20 17136K  2708K wait    1   0:10   0.00% sh
                            18589 dhcpd         1  20    0 24812K 13732K select  0   0:09   0.00% dhcpd
                              249 root          1  20    0   224M 23864K kqread  0   0:06   0.00% php-fpm
                            52746 root          1  20    0 55720K  8208K bpf     1   0:06   0.00% bandwidthd
                            51691 root          1  20    0 55720K  8208K bpf     1   0:06   0.00% bandwidthd
                            52256 root          1  20    0 55720K  7784K bpf     0   0:06   0.00% bandwidthd
                            53072 root          1  20    0 55720K  7784K bpf     0   0:06   0.00% bandwidthd
                            52390 root          1  20    0 55720K  7592K bpf     0   0:06   0.00% bandwidthd
                            53363 root          1  20    0 55720K  7592K bpf     1   0:06   0.00% bandwidthd
                            52369 root          1  20    0 55720K  7592K bpf     0   0:06   0.00% bandwidthd
                            53433 root          1  20    0 55720K  7592K bpf     1   0:06   0.00% bandwidthd
                            74125 root          1  20    0 28164K 18052K select  1   0:04   0.00% ntpd
                            21345 proxy         1  20    0 26420K  3496K msgrcv  1   0:03   0.00% diskd
                            37674 root          1  20    0 28344K  3004K piperd  1   0:03   0.00% rrdtool
                            21331 root          1  24    0 17136K  2472K wait    0   0:02   0.00% sh
                             5939 root          1  20    0 43604K  6296K select  0   0:02   0.00% mpd5
                            76391 root          1  52    0 16664K  2580K nanslp  0   0:02   0.00% cron
                            62926 uucp          1  20    0 18832K  2580K nanslp  1   0:02   0.00% upsmon
                             2449 root          6  20    0   841M 19180K usem    0   0:01   0.00% radiusd
                            51508 proxy         1  20    0 39948K 13320K sbwait  1   0:00   0.00% squidGuard
                            29824 root          1  20    0 18780K  2344K select  0   0:00   0.00% inetd
                            84405 root          1  20    0   228M 40988K accept  0   0:00   0.00% php-fpm
                            26787 proxy         1  20    0 39948K 13320K sbwait  1   0:00   0.00% squidGuard
                              277 root          1  20    0 13164K  4468K select  0   0:00   0.00% devd
                            21859 root          1  36    0 12404K  2008K nanslp  1   0:00   0.00% minicron
                              264 root          1  40   20 19024K  2580K kqread  0   0:00   0.00% check_reload_status
                            21741 _dhcp         1  20    0 14696K  2432K select  0   0:00   0.00% dhclient
                            67699 proxy         1  20    0 39948K 13320K sbwait  1   0:00   0.00% squidGuard
                            70370 proxy         1  20    0 39948K 13256K sbwait  1   0:00   0.00% squidGuard
                            14139 root          1  26    0 14696K  2304K select  0   0:00   0.00% dhclient
                            75957 proxy         1  20    0 39948K 13204K sbwait  0   0:00   0.00% squidGuard
                            78957 proxy         1  20    0 39948K 13032K sbwait  1   0:00   0.00% squidGuard
                            73199 proxy         1  20    0 39948K 13276K sbwait  1   0:00   0.00% squidGuard
                            88656 proxy         1  20    0 39948K 12832K sbwait  1   0:00   0.00% squidGuard
                            80350 proxy         1  20    0 39948K 12892K sbwait  0   0:00   0.00% squidGuard
                            83638 proxy         1  20    0 39948K 12992K sbwait  0   0:00   0.00% squidGuard
                            88080 proxy         1  20    0 39948K 12932K sbwait  0   0:00   0.00% squidGuard
                            93258 proxy         1  20    0 39948K 12812K sbwait  1   0:00   0.00% squidGuard
                            21949 proxy         1  52    0 39948K 12284K sbwait  0   0:00   0.00% squidGuard
                            44222 proxy         1  20    0 39948K 12532K sbwait  1   0:00   0.00% squidGuard
                            58083 proxy         1  20    0 39948K 12424K sbwait  1   0:00   0.00% squidGuard
                            46334 proxy         1  20    0 39948K 12652K sbwait  0   0:00   0.00% squidGuard
                            41249 proxy         1  20    0 39948K 12532K sbwait  0   0:00   0.00% squidGuard
                            72968 proxy         1  20    0 39948K 12424K sbwait  1   0:00   0.00% squidGuard
                            49510 proxy         1  20    0 39948K 12532K sbwait  1   0:00   0.00% squidGuard
                            54945 proxy         1  20    0 39948K 12384K sbwait  1   0:00   0.00% squidGuard
                            52169 proxy         1  20    0 39948K 12484K sbwait  0   0:00   0.00% squidGuard
                            
                            

                            6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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                            • M
                              Mr. Jingles
                              last edited by

                              @jimp:

                              2.3 will have a shiny new Bootstrap-based GUI, so that should at least be different, if not faster. :-)

                              I admire your efforts, yet I'm still on 2.2.1; upgrading to 2.2.2 gave problems so rolled back; hoping 2.2.3 would skip the 2.2.2 problems so I upgraded that and rolled back again to 2.2.1. I'm afraid to upgrade to any new version, ever since 2.0 every upgrade required a fresh install + days of customizing the packages by hand, as the 'restore configuration' never worked  :-[

                              So I will probably see the new GUI at pfSense 167.2.9  ;D ;D ;D

                              6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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                              • jimpJ
                                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                last edited by

                                2.2.4 will be out soon (today, probably) and should be even better. Certainly better than 2.2.3 or 2.2.2.

                                2.3 with Bootstrap will be a few months out yet. Not sure on an ETA, probably sometime this fall.

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                                • ivorI
                                  ivor
                                  last edited by

                                  @Mr.:

                                  @jimp:

                                  2.3 will have a shiny new Bootstrap-based GUI, so that should at least be different, if not faster. :-)

                                  I admire your efforts, yet I'm still on 2.2.1; upgrading to 2.2.2 gave problems so rolled back; hoping 2.2.3 would skip the 2.2.2 problems so I upgraded that and rolled back again to 2.2.1. I'm afraid to upgrade to any new version, ever since 2.0 every upgrade required a fresh install + days of customizing the packages by hand, as the 'restore configuration' never worked  :-[

                                  So I will probably see the new GUI at pfSense 167.2.9  ;D ;D ;D
                                  [/quote]

                                  That's strange. I have installs upgrading since 2.1.x to 2.2.x with no issues. Restoring config as well. Could be that there is something in your pfSense setup that is messed up due rollbacks, packages who knows. How big is your backup config?

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                                  • GertjanG
                                    Gertjan
                                    last edited by

                                    Ok, I saw your 'top'.

                                    snort and squid eat already 45% of your CPU time.
                                    Note that you have some zombies to (8). THis means processes are crashing in your box.
                                    But all this isn't very conclusive for me.

                                    This might a be a nasty one: you have a boatload of packages running or your box.
                                    I guess it might be worth the shot to disable them all, enable one by one and see when the GUI (simple web server+ PHP) starts slowing down.

                                    It can't be your hardware, you have more horse power in the box as I have, but still, the "software load" bogs it down …

                                    No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                                    Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                                      @ivor:

                                      @Mr.:

                                      @jimp:

                                      2.3 will have a shiny new Bootstrap-based GUI, so that should at least be different, if not faster. :-)

                                      I admire your efforts, yet I'm still on 2.2.1; upgrading to 2.2.2 gave problems so rolled back; hoping 2.2.3 would skip the 2.2.2 problems so I upgraded that and rolled back again to 2.2.1. I'm afraid to upgrade to any new version, ever since 2.0 every upgrade required a fresh install + days of customizing the packages by hand, as the 'restore configuration' never worked  :-[

                                      So I will probably see the new GUI at pfSense 167.2.9  ;D ;D ;D
                                      [/quote]

                                      That's strange. I have installs upgrading since 2.1.x to 2.2.x with no issues. Restoring config as well. Could be that there is something in your pfSense setup that is messed up due rollbacks, packages who knows. How big is your backup config?

                                      Thanks Igor. I just test that, and created a screenshot.

                                      configurationszuruckstellingsuberhaltungsgesetz.jpg
                                      configurationszuruckstellingsuberhaltungsgesetz.jpg_thumb

                                      6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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                                        ivor
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                                        @Mr.:

                                        @ivor:

                                        @Mr.:

                                        @jimp:

                                        2.3 will have a shiny new Bootstrap-based GUI, so that should at least be different, if not faster. :-)

                                        I admire your efforts, yet I'm still on 2.2.1; upgrading to 2.2.2 gave problems so rolled back; hoping 2.2.3 would skip the 2.2.2 problems so I upgraded that and rolled back again to 2.2.1. I'm afraid to upgrade to any new version, ever since 2.0 every upgrade required a fresh install + days of customizing the packages by hand, as the 'restore configuration' never worked  :-[

                                        So I will probably see the new GUI at pfSense 167.2.9  ;D ;D ;D
                                        [/quote]

                                        That's strange. I have installs upgrading since 2.1.x to 2.2.x with no issues. Restoring config as well. Could be that there is something in your pfSense setup that is messed up due rollbacks, packages who knows. How big is your backup config?

                                        Thanks Igor. I just test that, and created a screenshot.

                                        That's ungodly big config backup.

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                                          Mr. Jingles
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                                          @Gertjan:

                                          Ok, I saw your 'top'.

                                          snort and squid eat already 45% of your CPU time.
                                          Note that you have some zombies to ( 8) . THis means processes are crashing in your box.
                                          But all this isn't very conclusive for me.

                                          This might a be a nasty one: you have a boatload of packages running or your box.
                                          I guess it might be worth the shot to disable them all, enable one by one and see when the GUI (simple web server+ PHP) starts slowing down.

                                          It can't be your hardware, you have more horse power in the box as I have, but still, the "software load" bogs it down …

                                          Thanks GertJan  ;D

                                          (Bedaankt  :-* ).

                                          I may have pasted the top while Snort was updating. Here's another one:

                                          
                                          last pid:   411;  load averages:  0.40,  0.37,  0.29                                                                                                                                                                 up 0+04:45:25  19:22:51
                                          65 processes:  1 running, 58 sleeping, 6 zombie
                                          CPU:  4.3% user,  0.0% nice,  4.3% system,  0.8% interrupt, 90.6% idle
                                          Mem: 361M Active, 2169M Inact, 1213M Wired, 528K Cache, 2104M Buf, 12G Free
                                          Swap: 32G Total, 32G Free
                                          
                                            PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME    WCPU COMMAND
                                          14853 root          8  20    0  1984M  1881M uwait   0   6:28   3.47% suricata
                                          22287 root         15  20    0   219M 93032K nanslp  0   1:38   2.98% ntopng
                                          76817 root          1  20    0 21988K  3152K CPU0    0   0:02   0.10% top
                                          14138 root        150  20    0   193M 21948K uwait   0   0:26   0.00% filterdns
                                          23911 root          1  20    0 14656K  2436K select  1   0:20   0.00% syslogd
                                          96188 nobody        1  20    0 19060K  3516K select  1   0:12   0.00% darkstat
                                          63665 root          1  20    0 21720K  5892K select  0   0:08   0.00% openvpn
                                          30669 root          1  20    0 12456K  2180K select  1   0:06   0.00% apinger
                                          71884 unbound       2  20    0 88488K 32732K kqread  1   0:06   0.00% unbound
                                          17917 root          3  52    0 24572K  4716K uwait   0   0:03   0.00% redis-server
                                          49979 dhcpd         1  20    0 24812K 13732K select  1   0:02   0.00% dhcpd
                                          39033 root          1  20    0 50788K  7796K kqread  0   0:02   0.00% lighttpd
                                          66015 root          1  20    0 21720K  5920K select  0   0:02   0.00% openvpn
                                          65501 root          2  20    0   783M   386M nanslp  1   0:01   0.00% snort
                                          99052 root          1  20    0 14540K  2080K select  1   0:01   0.00% powerd
                                          79354 root          1  52   20 17136K  2708K wait    1   0:01   0.00% sh
                                            249 root          1  20    0   224M 23864K kqread  1   0:01   0.00% php-fpm
                                          89390 root          1  20    0 55720K  7588K bpf     0   0:01   0.00% bandwidthd
                                          91338 root          1  20    0 55720K  7528K bpf     0   0:01   0.00% bandwidthd
                                          90609 root          1  20    0 55720K  7528K bpf     0   0:01   0.00% bandwidthd
                                          89470 root          1  20    0 55720K  7588K bpf     0   0:01   0.00% bandwidthd
                                          91063 root          1  20    0 55720K  7588K bpf     1   0:01   0.00% bandwidthd
                                          90317 root          1  20    0 55720K  7588K bpf     0   0:01   0.00% bandwidthd
                                          90849 root          1  20    0 55720K  7588K bpf     0   0:01   0.00% bandwidthd
                                          27472 root          1  20    0 16804K  2340K bpf     1   0:01   0.00% filterlog
                                          89712 root          1  20    0 55720K  7588K bpf     1   0:01   0.00% bandwidthd
                                          26816 root          1  20    0 28164K 18052K select  1   0:00   0.00% ntpd
                                          14226 root          1  52    0 16664K  2524K nanslp  1   0:00   0.00% cron
                                           6133 root          1  20    0 43604K  6296K select  0   0:00   0.00% mpd5
                                          99043 uucp          1  20    0 18832K  2580K nanslp  1   0:00   0.00% upsmon
                                          30999 root          1  20    0 28344K  3004K piperd  1   0:00   0.00% rrdtool
                                          40664 root          1  20    0 55624K  6216K select  1   0:00   0.00% sshd
                                          40320 root          6  20    0   737M 16308K usem    0   0:00   0.00% radiusd
                                            264 root          1  40   20 19024K  2580K kqread  1   0:00   0.00% check_reload_status
                                          28002 root          1  20    0 18780K  2344K select  1   0:00   0.00% inetd
                                            277 root          1  20    0 13164K  4464K select  0   0:00   0.00% devd
                                          41275 root          1  24    0 17136K  2756K wait    0   0:00   0.00% sh
                                          40969 root          2  20    0 14748K  2312K nanslp  1   0:00   0.00% sshlockout_pf
                                          54468 root          1  47    0 12404K  2008K nanslp  1   0:00   0.00% minicron
                                          43186 root          1  35    0 17476K  3856K pause   1   0:00   0.00% tcsh
                                          41378 root          1  52    0 17136K  2664K wait    1   0:00   0.00% sh
                                           7016 root          1  20    0 32420K  5228K select  0   0:00   0.00% sshd
                                          72822 root          1  20    0 12408K  2224K kqread  0   0:00   0.00% dhcpleases
                                          42562 root          1  20    0 43568K  2800K wait    0   0:00   0.00% login
                                          58733 root          2  20    0 14748K  2312K nanslp  0   0:00   0.00% sshlockout_pf
                                           7202 root          2  20    0 14748K  2220K nanslp  0   0:00   0.00% sshlockout_pf
                                          42883 root          1  21    0 17136K  2776K wait    1   0:00   0.00% sh
                                          42916 root          1  52    0 17136K  2660K ttyin   0   0:00   0.00% sh
                                          20251 root          1  21    0   224M 23868K accept  0   0:00   0.00% php-fpm
                                          18833 nagios        1  52    0 23180K  4956K select  1   0:00   0.00% nrpe2
                                          98998 root          1  52    0 18832K  2552K piperd  0   0:00   0.00% upsmon
                                          54781 root          1  20    0 12404K  2008K nanslp  0   0:00   0.00% minicron
                                            411 root          1  52   20  8304K  1952K nanslp  0   0:00   0.00% sleep
                                          96433 nobody        1  52    0 19060K  2396K sbwait  0   0:00   0.00% darkstat
                                          54289 root          1  20    0 12404K  1996K wait    1   0:00   0.00% minicron
                                          54475 root          1  21    0 12404K  1996K wait    1   0:00   0.00% minicron
                                          55145 root          1  21    0 12404K  1996K wait    1   0:00   0.00% minicron
                                            266 root          1  52   20 19024K  2404K kqread  1   0:00   0.00% check_reload_status
                                          55546 root          1  20    0 12404K  2008K nanslp  1   0:00   0.00% minicron
                                          
                                          

                                          That is showing the machine is doing very little?

                                          How can I kill the zombies ( ;D ;D ;D )?

                                          6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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                                            Mr. Jingles
                                            last edited by

                                            @ivor:

                                            @Mr.:

                                            @ivor:

                                            @Mr.:

                                            @jimp:

                                            2.3 will have a shiny new Bootstrap-based GUI, so that should at least be different, if not faster. :-)

                                            I admire your efforts, yet I'm still on 2.2.1; upgrading to 2.2.2 gave problems so rolled back; hoping 2.2.3 would skip the 2.2.2 problems so I upgraded that and rolled back again to 2.2.1. I'm afraid to upgrade to any new version, ever since 2.0 every upgrade required a fresh install + days of customizing the packages by hand, as the 'restore configuration' never worked  :-[

                                            So I will probably see the new GUI at pfSense 167.2.9  ;D ;D ;D
                                            [/quote]

                                            That's strange. I have installs upgrading since 2.1.x to 2.2.x with no issues. Restoring config as well. Could be that there is something in your pfSense setup that is messed up due rollbacks, packages who knows. How big is your backup config?

                                            Thanks Igor. I just test that, and created a screenshot.

                                            That's ungodly big config backup.

                                            'tIs a feature, not a bug ( ;D ;D ;D ).

                                            I don't know, perhaps it's BB's pfblockerNG tables that are being backupped too? (I don't know :-[ ).

                                            6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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