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      dugeem
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      Enabled PowerD in System: Advanced: Miscellaneous

      Later that day noticed that system log was full of message

      hwpstate0: set freq failed, err 6
      

      Based on comments by yodawg (see thread https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=106261.msg592098 ) added the lines

      hint.p4tcc.0.disabled=1
      hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled=1

      to /boot/loader.conf.local (you could modify /boot/loader.conf - but it may be overwritten with upgrades)

      Some good background info at https://wiki.freebsd.org/TuningPowerConsumption

      However in pfSense 2.2.6 (based on FreeBSD 10.1) the problem reoccurred - so I have disabled PowerD for now.
      NB Thread above by yodawg is for pfSense 2.3 Beta - so later FreeBSD 10.3 PRERELEASE possibly fixes the issue

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        A Former User
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        Weird, when I set those on mine i haven't had the messages since. Maybe it has to have something to do with hi adaptive/adapative settings.

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          dugeem
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          Have recently updated my APU2 from 2.2.6 to 2.3-RC - which was fairly straightforward.

          Prior to upgrading, I updated the APU2 BIOS from 160120 to 160307. This BIOS version fixes both the reboot issue mentioned by yodawg (refer https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=106261.msg592098) and also adds SD boot support (which I have not tested). There is an even later BIOS version 160311 which adds iPXE support. Refer to PC Engines - http://pcengines.ch/howto.htm#bios

          NB With the reboot issue fixed, the custom tunables hw.acpi.disable_on_reboot & hw.acpi.handle_reboot can be deleted from System / Advanced / System Tunables.

          I have reenabled PowerD albeit with system tuneables:

          hint.p4tcc.0.disabled=1
          hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled=1

          added to /boot/loader.conf.local

          Dmesg output:

          Copyright (c) 1992-2016 The FreeBSD Project.
          Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
          	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
          FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
          FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE #13 eac8329(RELENG_2_3): Wed Apr  6 06:20:01 CDT 2016
              root@ce23-amd64-builder:/builder/pfsense/tmp/obj/builder/pfsense/tmp/FreeBSD-src/sys/pfSense amd64
          FreeBSD clang version 3.4.1 (tags/RELEASE_34/dot1-final 208032) 20140512
          CPU: AMD GX-412TC SOC                                (998.17-MHz K8-class CPU)
            Origin="AuthenticAMD"  Id=0x730f01  Family=0x16  Model=0x30  Stepping=1
            Features=0x178bfbff <fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,htt>Features2=0x3ed8220b <sse3,pclmulqdq,mon,ssse3,cx16,sse4.1,sse4.2,movbe,popcnt,aesni,xsave,osxsave,avx,f16c>AMD Features=0x2e500800 <syscall,nx,mmx+,ffxsr,page1gb,rdtscp,lm>AMD Features2=0x1d4037ff <lahf,cmp,svm,extapic,cr8,abm,sse4a,mas,prefetch,osvw,ibs,skinit,wdt,topology,pnxc,dbe,ptsc,pl2i>Structured Extended Features=0x8 <bmi1>XSAVE Features=0x1 <xsaveopt>SVM: NP,NRIP,AFlush,DAssist,NAsids=8
            TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics
          real memory  = 4815060992 (4592 MB)
          avail memory = 4095913984 (3906 MB)
          Event timer "LAPIC" quality 400
          ACPI APIC Table: <core  coreboot="">FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
          FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)
           cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
           cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1
           cpu2 (AP): APIC ID:  2
           cpu3 (AP): APIC ID:  3
          random: <software, yarrow="">initialized
          ioapic1: Changing APIC ID to 5
          ioapic0 <version 2.1="">irqs 0-23 on motherboard
          ioapic1 <version 2.1="">irqs 24-55 on motherboard
          wlan: mac acl policy registered
          netmap: loaded module
          kbd0 at kbdmux0
          module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (vesa, 0xffffffff810166d0, 0) error 19
          cryptosoft0: <software crypto="">on motherboard
          padlock0: No ACE support.
          acpi0: <core coreboot="">on motherboard
          acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
          cpu0: <acpi cpu="">on acpi0
          cpu1: <acpi cpu="">on acpi0
          cpu2: <acpi cpu="">on acpi0
          cpu3: <acpi cpu="">on acpi0
          atrtc0: <at realtime="" clock="">port 0x70-0x71 irq 8 on acpi0
          Event timer "RTC" frequency 32768 Hz quality 0
          attimer0: <at timer="">port 0x40-0x43 irq 0 on acpi0
          Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
          Event timer "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100
          Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850
          acpi_timer0: <32-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x818-0x81b on acpi0
          hpet0: <high precision="" event="" timer="">iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff on acpi0
          Timecounter "HPET" frequency 14318180 Hz quality 950
          acpi_button0: <power button="">on acpi0
          pcib0: <acpi host-pci="" bridge="">port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
          pci0: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib0
          pcib1: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">at device 2.2 on pci0
          pcib1: failed to allocate initial I/O port window: 0x1000-0x1fff
          pci1: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib1
          igb0: <intel(r) 1000="" pro="" network="" connection,="" version="" -="" 2.5.3-k="">mem 0xfe600000-0xfe61ffff,0xfe620000-0xfe623fff at device 0.0 on pci1
          igb0: Using MSIX interrupts with 5 vectors
          igb0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:b9:xx:yy:zz
          igb0: Bound queue 0 to cpu 0
          igb0: Bound queue 1 to cpu 1
          igb0: Bound queue 2 to cpu 2
          igb0: Bound queue 3 to cpu 3
          igb0: netmap queues/slots: TX 4/1024, RX 4/1024
          pcib2: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">at device 2.3 on pci0
          pci2: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib2
          igb1: <intel(r) 1000="" pro="" network="" connection,="" version="" -="" 2.5.3-k="">port 0x2000-0x201f mem 0xfe700000-0xfe71ffff,0xfe720000-0xfe723fff at device 0.0 on pci2
          igb1: Using MSIX interrupts with 5 vectors
          igb1: Ethernet address: 00:0d:b9:xx:yy:zz
          igb1: Bound queue 0 to cpu 0
          igb1: Bound queue 1 to cpu 1
          igb1: Bound queue 2 to cpu 2
          igb1: Bound queue 3 to cpu 3
          igb1: netmap queues/slots: TX 4/1024, RX 4/1024
          pcib3: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">at device 2.4 on pci0
          pci3: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib3
          igb2: <intel(r) 1000="" pro="" network="" connection,="" version="" -="" 2.5.3-k="">port 0x3000-0x301f mem 0xfe800000-0xfe81ffff,0xfe820000-0xfe823fff at device 0.0 on pci3
          igb2: Using MSIX interrupts with 5 vectors
          igb2: Ethernet address: 00:0d:b9:xx:yy:zz
          igb2: Bound queue 0 to cpu 0
          igb2: Bound queue 1 to cpu 1
          igb2: Bound queue 2 to cpu 2
          igb2: Bound queue 3 to cpu 3
          igb2: netmap queues/slots: TX 4/1024, RX 4/1024
          pci0: <encrypt decrypt="">at device 8.0 (no driver attached)
          xhci0: <xhci (generic)="" usb="" 3.0="" controller="">mem 0xfeb22000-0xfeb23fff at device 16.0 on pci0
          xhci0: 32 bytes context size, 64-bit DMA
          usbus0 on xhci0
          ahci0: <amd hudson-2="" ahci="" sata="" controller="">port 0x4010-0x4017,0x4020-0x4023,0x4018-0x401f,0x4024-0x4027,0x4000-0x400f mem 0xfeb25000-0xfeb253ff at device 17.0 on pci0
          ahci0: AHCI v1.30 with 2 6Gbps ports, Port Multiplier supported with FBS
          ahcich0: <ahci channel="">at channel 0 on ahci0
          ahcich1: <ahci channel="">at channel 1 on ahci0
          ehci0: <ehci (generic)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">mem 0xfeb25400-0xfeb254ff at device 19.0 on pci0
          usbus1: EHCI version 1.0
          usbus1 on ehci0
          isab0: <pci-isa bridge="">at device 20.3 on pci0
          isa0: <isa bus="">on isab0
          sdhci_pci0: <generic sd="" hci="">mem 0xfeb25500-0xfeb255ff at device 20.7 on pci0
          sdhci_pci0: 1 slot(s) allocated
          uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
          uart0: console (115200,n,8,1)
          orm0: <isa option="" roms="">at iomem 0xc0000-0xc0fff,0xef000-0xeffff on isa0
          ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range
          uart1: <16550 or compatible> at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
          hwpstate0: <cool`n'quiet 2.0="">on cpu0
          Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
          IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
          random: unblocking device.
          usbus0: 5.0Gbps Super Speed USB v3.0
          usbus1: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
          ugen0.1: <0x1022> at usbus0
          uhub0: <0x1022 XHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 3.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus0
          ugen1.1: <amd>at usbus1
          uhub1: <amd 1="" 9="" ehci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usbus1
          uhub0: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
          uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
          ugen1.2: <vendor 0x0438="">at usbus1
          uhub2: <vendor 2="" 9="" 0x0438="" product="" 0x7900,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 0.18,="" addr="">on usbus1
          uhub2: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
          ada0 at ahcich0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
          ada0: <toshiba thnsnj128gmcu="" jut10101="">ACS-2 ATA SATA 3.x device
          ada0: Serial Number 64BAXXXXXXXX
          ada0: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes)
          ada0: Command Queueing enabled
          ada0: 122104MB (250069680 512 byte sectors)
          ada0: Previously was known as ad4
          SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched!
          SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched!
          SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
          Timecounter "TSC" frequency 998166595 Hz quality 1000
          Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufsid/56ab799e3048e296 [rw]...
          padlock0: No ACE support.
          aesni0: <aes-cbc,aes-xts,aes-gcm,aes-icm>on motherboard
          igb1: link state changed to UP
          ng0: changing name to 'pppoe1'
          pflog0: promiscuous mode enabled
          igb2: link state changed to UP
          igb0: link state changed to UP
          tun1: changing name to 'ovpns1'
          ovpns1: link state changed to UP</aes-cbc,aes-xts,aes-gcm,aes-icm></toshiba></vendor></vendor></amd></amd></cool`n'quiet></isa></generic></isa></pci-isa></ehci></ahci></ahci></amd></xhci></encrypt></intel(r)></acpi></acpi></intel(r)></acpi></acpi></intel(r)></acpi></acpi></acpi></acpi></power></high></at></at></acpi></acpi></acpi></acpi></core></software></version></version></software,></core ></xsaveopt></bmi1></lahf,cmp,svm,extapic,cr8,abm,sse4a,mas,prefetch,osvw,ibs,skinit,wdt,topology,pnxc,dbe,ptsc,pl2i></syscall,nx,mmx+,ffxsr,page1gb,rdtscp,lm></sse3,pclmulqdq,mon,ssse3,cx16,sse4.1,sse4.2,movbe,popcnt,aesni,xsave,osxsave,avx,f16c></fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,htt> 
          
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            dugeem
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            pfSense 2.3-RC - FreeBSD 10.3 - OpenSSL 1.0.1s

            With aesni kernel module loaded:

            openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-128-cbc
            type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
            aes-128-cbc       1415.24k     5719.32k    20972.71k    64425.98k   165052.42k
            
            openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-256-cbc
            type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
            aes-256-cbc       1422.00k     5596.20k    19954.86k    58028.03k   128863.18k
            

            With aesni kernel module unloaded (i.e. use openssl internal AES-NI support):

            openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-128-cbc
            type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
            aes-128-cbc     118951.32k   174348.44k   215569.58k   226972.33k   229908.48k
            
            openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-256-cbc
            type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
            aes-256-cbc     100858.39k   136414.06k   157968.73k   164130.47k   166958.42k
            
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              Guest
              last edited by

              Nice and interesting thread about the new APU2 board.

              For the APU I can say we were getting something around ~500+ MBit/s at the WAN Port and with enabled
              PowerD (hi adaptive) we got ~650 MBit/s as throughput. Perhaps this will be different from the APU2 with
              a quad core CPU. But otherwise I would recommend to enable PowerD (hi adaptive).

              My apu2b4 is running pfSense 2.2.6 with BIOS 160120 and a Toshiba mSata SSD. Previously was running an alix 2d13.

              Would you share the full name of the mSATA please? Another user is searching for one that is 100% compatible
              with pfSense and able to support TRIM too. Thread about that

              Upstream my apu2 has 2 WANs - a 34Mb/s HFC/DOCSIS service (IPv4 only) and a 10Mb/s DSL line (IPv4 & IPv6). The Alix could manage this bandwidth okay but throw in incoming requests to a NTP pool server (~2k - 20k states) and the memory was getting tight.

              What I was not really getting out of your thread here is the following;
              What kind of APU2xx you are running now exactly? With 2 GB or 4 GB of RAM?
              And why the older Alix board  was not running out of RAM? It has less then the APU as I know it, or?
              As I know it it must be something like this
              APU2B2 (2 GB)
              APU2B4 (4 GB)
              APU2C2 (2 GB)
              APU2C4 (4 GB)

              The name of this boards is likes the following;
              APU2A4 = Alpha series (not for the public)
              APU2B4 = Beta series (production ready but any hardware and BIOS can be changed)
              APU2C4 = Consumer series (production ready but some hardware only and/or BIOS can be changed)
              APU2D4 = Distributed series (production ready and only the BIOS code will be perhaps changed)

              If someone is bricking his BIOS there is also even a BIOS recovery solution for nearly all PC Engines Boards.
              (Perhaps interesting, perhaps not) and I would imagine that there will be also if the APU2 board is fully ready
              one for the APU2 too. 
              Alix Boards
              APU1 Board

              Also a single or dual case for some PC Engines boards are able to get from here.
              19" DualRack System for PC Engines ALIX, APU Board

              Some questions from me about the APU will be;

              • Is the WebGui running smooth and liquid?
              • Is it faster then the APU1 or significant faster then the older Alix boards?
              • Can anyone do perhaps an IPSec speed test with the AES-NI module loaded?
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                dugeem
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                @BlueKobold:

                But otherwise I would recommend to enable PowerD (hi adaptive).

                Thanks - that is what I have configured.
                NB Enabling this in pfSense 2.2 resulting in some log spamming (as above) but haven't seen this issue in 2.3.

                Would you share the full name of the mSATA please? Another user is searching for one that is 100% compatible
                with pfSense and able to support TRIM too. Thread about that

                Sure - it is a Toshiba HG6 128GB mSata (THNSNJ128GMCU). Works well (including Trim) although I don't think it is the fastest SSD around … but for my pfSense installation it is fine.

                What kind of APU2xx you are running now exactly? With 2 GB or 4 GB of RAM?

                You've already quoted me where I mentioned that I'm running a apu2b4 ;) … so 4GB RAM available

                And why the older Alix board  was not running out of RAM?

                The 256MB of RAM in my old Alix 2D13 was insufficient. Occasionally it would run out of memory when booting (although this happened less with pfSense 2.2 release series). Also it would struggle with a large number of FW states - although I tuned the PF parameters to timeout UDP states after 30 seconds.

                If someone is bricking his BIOS there is also even a BIOS recovery solution for nearly all PC Engines Boards.

                Good to know - although I have had no problems flashing the APU2 BIOS - I simply followed the instructions  ;D

                Some questions from me about the APU will be;

                • Is the WebGui running smooth and liquid?
                • Is it faster then the APU1 or significant faster then the older Alix boards?
                • Can anyone do perhaps an IPSec speed test with the AES-NI module loaded?

                The pfSense 2.3-RC WebGUI is very good and loads quickly on the APU2. When I get time I will run up 2.3 on the old Alix and do some comparison - certainly the pfSense 2.2 GUI was a bit sluggish on the Alix.
                Speed wise the APU2 really is much faster than the ALIX - not surprising given the change from a 500MHz single core AMD Geode to a 1GHz quad core AMD GX-412TC. In fact for me it is probably overkill … but I'm likely to get 100Mb/s broadband next year so it will better handle that. The APU2 has Intel GigE chipsets and AESNI hardware - which also helps increase performance.
                Unfortunately I don't use IPSEC so can't really give you any objective performance data but you can probably get a rough idea of AESNI performance with the OpenSSL benchmark results above.

                Cheers

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                  dw
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                  I recently got 250/100Mbit connection and wounder whats the preformance?
                  If the board can make OpenVPN/IPsec 100Mbit/s?

                  I have seen the APU1D4 can make around ~40 mbit/s.

                  The difference is that the APU2 have the double CPU power than APU1, AES-NI support and Intel NICs.

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                    Guest
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                    If the board can make OpenVPN/IPsec 100Mbit/s?

                    IPSec by using AES-GCM is going to show results around of 400% of the normal throughput or plain
                    a 4 time higher throughput and OpenVPN will not showing that. In OpenVPN 2.4 also AES-GCM will
                    be inside and will then giving you perhaps also that throughput too.

                    I have seen the APU1D4 can make around ~40 mbit/s.

                    IPSec or OpenVPN?

                    The difference is that the APU2 have the double CPU power than APU1, AES-NI support and Intel NICs.

                    Not really, it comes with 2 more CPU cores but also on 1,0GHz cpu frequency as the APU1 seris.
                    AES-NI and Intel ports is right and also very nice to have as I see it right.

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                      movax
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                      BTW> I reported my experienced with APU2C4 here https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=108231.msg612643#msg612643 , some other benchmarks and power usage included.

                      The aes performance is the same as reported here.

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                        ktk
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                        Did anyone actually manage to boot PFsense 2.3 on APU2? I ran into an issue as reported here https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=110366.0

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                          Guest
                          last edited by

                          @ktk:

                          Did anyone actually manage to boot PFsense 2.3 on APU2? I ran into an issue as reported here https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=110366.0

                          What is the BIOS version you are using? The latest one will be from the 3/11/2016.

                          • update to the latest BIOS
                          • prepare a USB pen drive to install from with the right and matching 2.3-amd64-memstick-console-image
                          • insert a mSATA or HDD/SSD drive
                          • connect via console via Putty (please set Putty to 115200 8/N/1 and the BIOS settings
                            too pfSense is coming by default with that settings)
                          • change the boot order to USB and do a reboot please
                          • install form the USB pen drive and change after that the boot order back to mSATA, HDD/SSD and reboot again
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                            ktk
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                            Hi Frank,

                            @BlueKobold:

                            @ktk:

                            Did anyone actually manage to boot PFsense 2.3 on APU2? I ran into an issue as reported here https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=110366.0

                            What is the BIOS version you are using? The latest one will be from the 3/11/2016.

                            • update to the latest BIOS
                            • prepare a USB pen drive to install from with the right and matching 2.3-amd64-memstick-console-image
                            • insert a mSATA or HDD/SSD drive
                            • connect via console via Putty (please set Putty to 115200 8/N/1 and the BIOS settings
                              too pfSense is coming by default with that settings)
                            • change the boot order to USB and do a reboot please
                            • install form the USB pen drive and change after that the boot order back to mSATA, HDD/SSD and reboot again

                            I am on latest bios already. I tried booting on SD card and from USB stick, neither did work. The SD card cannot mount ufs:/dev/ufs/pfsense0 and with USB stick I had so many errors reported on my console that I couldn't see which one actually triggered it.

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                              mattlach
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                              @ktk:

                              Hi Frank,

                              @BlueKobold:

                              @ktk:

                              Did anyone actually manage to boot PFsense 2.3 on APU2? I ran into an issue as reported here https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=110366.0

                              What is the BIOS version you are using? The latest one will be from the 3/11/2016.

                              • update to the latest BIOS
                              • prepare a USB pen drive to install from with the right and matching 2.3-amd64-memstick-console-image
                              • insert a mSATA or HDD/SSD drive
                              • connect via console via Putty (please set Putty to 115200 8/N/1 and the BIOS settings
                                too pfSense is coming by default with that settings)
                              • change the boot order to USB and do a reboot please
                              • install form the USB pen drive and change after that the boot order back to mSATA, HDD/SSD and reboot again

                              I am on latest bios already. I tried booting on SD card and from USB stick, neither did work. The SD card cannot mount ufs:/dev/ufs/pfsense0 and with USB stick I had so many errors reported on my console that I couldn't see which one actually triggered it.

                              I had issues installing using the 2.3.1 serial console images.  The memstick version had problems writing to partitions in the dmesg, and the CD ISO couldn't mount the root partition of the installer at all, all resulting in an error console, and thus no pfSense installer.

                              On a whim, I downloaded the previous memstick installer from the mirror (2.3, instead of 2.3.1) and this installed just fine.  I was then able to use the web interface to upgrade to 2.3.1_1 without any issues.

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                                mattlach
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                                @BlueKobold:

                                Nice and interesting thread about the new APU2 board.

                                For the APU I can say we were getting something around ~500+ MBit/s at the WAN Port and with enabled
                                PowerD (hi adaptive) we got ~650 MBit/s as throughput. Perhaps this will be different from the APU2 with
                                a quad core CPU. But otherwise I would recommend to enable PowerD (hi adaptive).

                                In 2.3.1_1 I wind up getting ~595Mbit/s throughput (as tested with iperf) without enabling PowerD.  Enabling PowerD in the web interface does not seem to affect throughput speed, whether set to hidaptive or not, but it also seems to have no impact on idle power consumption, which hovers between 5.8W-6.5W regardless of whether PowerD is on or off.  It makes me wonder if it is working at all.  Either way, if it is not making a difference on power consumption, I might just leave it off.

                                I also don't get any CPU temp output like I do with my Intel based box.  I was a little concerned about CPU temp due to the passive cooling setup just using the case to cool it, but it is a very low wattage part, so maybe that is silly of me.  Feeling the case, it doesn't feel too hot.  (In fact it barely gets warm)

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                                  hda
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                                  @mattlach:

                                  I also don't get any CPU temp output like I do with my Intel based box.  I was a little concerned about CPU temp due to the passive cooling setup just using the case to cool it, but it is a very low wattage part, so maybe that is silly of me.  Feeling the case, it doesn't feel too hot.  (In fact it barely gets warm)

                                  Firmware has testmode and it reports T as about 55 Celsius if with correct coolpad, else may fry (90 C) after 8 minutes…

                                  No GUI temps is due to missing FreeBSD code.

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                                    apollo17
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                                    To fix cpu temps follow the guide here https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=108262.0

                                    My temps stay around 55-60 degrees c

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                                      edwardwong
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                                      Your CPU has 4 cores, can you test with "-multi 4" option to run 4 threads together? Then we can see the actual speed for this CPU.

                                      @dugeem:

                                      With aesni kernel module loaded:

                                      
                                      openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-128-cbc
                                      type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
                                      aes-128-cbc       1527.90k     5867.93k    21607.17k    65414.14k   162611.20k
                                      
                                      openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-256-cbc
                                      type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
                                      aes-256-cbc       1512.18k     5761.15k    20833.28k    58732.20k   127229.95k
                                      
                                      

                                      With aesni kernel module unloaded (i.e. use openssl internal AES-NI support):

                                      
                                      openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-128-cbc
                                      type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
                                      aes-128-cbc     125586.59k   174393.26k   213315.07k   226097.49k   230883.33k
                                      
                                      openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-256-cbc
                                      type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
                                      aes-256-cbc     100216.39k   136148.85k   157464.49k   162677.42k   165601.28k
                                      
                                      
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                                        Zebibyte
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                                        Here is what I got trying the same command with -multi 4

                                        openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-128-cbc -multi 4
                                        evp              5582.70k    22238.25k    81301.33k  244524.47k  593181.72k

                                        openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-256-cbc -multi 4
                                        evp              5615.02k    21855.49k    77674.24k  220074.67k  465368.41k

                                        Then after setting "Cryptographic Hardware" in the GUI back to none (not sure if this does the right thing)

                                        openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-128-cbc -multi 4
                                        evp              5645.37k    19885.66k    70725.03k  217378.47k  524483.65k

                                        openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-256-cbc -multi 4
                                        evp              5586.90k    21842.43k    77226.75k  219488.40k  455090.18k

                                        @edwardwong:

                                        Your CPU has 4 cores, can you test with "-multi 4" option to run 4 threads together? Then we can see the actual speed for this CPU.

                                        @dugeem:

                                        With aesni kernel module loaded:

                                        
                                        openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-128-cbc
                                        type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
                                        aes-128-cbc       1527.90k     5867.93k    21607.17k    65414.14k   162611.20k
                                        
                                        openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-256-cbc
                                        type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
                                        aes-256-cbc       1512.18k     5761.15k    20833.28k    58732.20k   127229.95k
                                        
                                        

                                        With aesni kernel module unloaded (i.e. use openssl internal AES-NI support):

                                        
                                        openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-128-cbc
                                        type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
                                        aes-128-cbc     125586.59k   174393.26k   213315.07k   226097.49k   230883.33k
                                        
                                        openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-256-cbc
                                        type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
                                        aes-256-cbc     100216.39k   136148.85k   157464.49k   162677.42k   165601.28k
                                        
                                        
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                                          AndrewZ
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                                          Just started to configure APU2C4 as a replacement for my old Alix 2D13.
                                          I'm wandering if it is possible to see the current CPU frequency in a dashboard?

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                                            edwardwong
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                                            Impressive result.
                                            BTW, using "-evp" will force using crypto hardware, so whatever you set in GUI doesn't really matter, maybe you should try to skip this option to see the difference.

                                            @Zebibyte:

                                            Here is what I got trying the same command with -multi 4

                                            openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-128-cbc -multi 4
                                            evp              5582.70k    22238.25k    81301.33k  244524.47k  593181.72k

                                            openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-256-cbc -multi 4
                                            evp              5615.02k    21855.49k    77674.24k  220074.67k  465368.41k

                                            Then after setting "Cryptographic Hardware" in the GUI back to none (not sure if this does the right thing)

                                            openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-128-cbc -multi 4
                                            evp              5645.37k    19885.66k    70725.03k  217378.47k  524483.65k

                                            openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-256-cbc -multi 4
                                            evp              5586.90k    21842.43k    77226.75k  219488.40k  455090.18k

                                            @edwardwong:

                                            Your CPU has 4 cores, can you test with "-multi 4" option to run 4 threads together? Then we can see the actual speed for this CPU.

                                            @dugeem:

                                            With aesni kernel module loaded:

                                            
                                            openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-128-cbc
                                            type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
                                            aes-128-cbc       1527.90k     5867.93k    21607.17k    65414.14k   162611.20k
                                            
                                            openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-256-cbc
                                            type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
                                            aes-256-cbc       1512.18k     5761.15k    20833.28k    58732.20k   127229.95k
                                            
                                            

                                            With aesni kernel module unloaded (i.e. use openssl internal AES-NI support):

                                            
                                            openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-128-cbc
                                            type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
                                            aes-128-cbc     125586.59k   174393.26k   213315.07k   226097.49k   230883.33k
                                            
                                            openssl speed -elapsed -evp aes-256-cbc
                                            type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
                                            aes-256-cbc     100216.39k   136148.85k   157464.49k   162677.42k   165601.28k
                                            
                                            
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