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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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        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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                  Mr. Jingles
                  last edited by

                  @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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                  • ivorI
                    ivor
                    last edited by

                    @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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                    • M
                      Mr. Jingles
                      last edited by

                      @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
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                        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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                          @Mr.:

                          '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 :-[ ).
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                          Nope, it's not a feature. It's a result of very poor pfSense config. We offer paid support exactly to prevent that : )

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