Queues show NaN values, why?

GentleJoe

I see NaN on all queue types eventually.

pppfsense

Ah finally other people noticed.

I knew it was a bug, but wanted others to chime first…

From my own testing, this happens is you change the Queue Limit from the default (either null or 500) to a bigger number (1000, 2000).

If you don't do that, the queues would show the numbers (who knows if they are correct), but not NAN, until a day or so later, where some will show NaN.

I'm guessing some wrong math or counters, but a bug in this release, none the less.

@Gentle:

I'm using traffic shaping.

I have used a few different types, PRIQ works well for voip, but i'm looking to understand and use HFSC more.

In both of these queue schedulers, I see NaN (not a number) in the queue status.

Any idea why? See screen captures enclosed.

kolpinkb

I just retested with all default queue length settings and I get NaN right away for borrows and suspends using PRIQ.

GentleJoe

These NaN don't indicate that the shaping has any operational errors do they?

I see them on all interfaces, on all pri types.

kolpinkb

I didn't see them at all on PRIQ in 2.4.2.

klou

Bug filed: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/8468

wallacebw

No Activity on this in a Year. :(

Fresh install this weekend on 2.4.4-RELEASE-p3 (amd64) built on Wed May 15 18:53:44 EDT 2019

and seeing the NaN using HFSC in Borrows and suspends

Any support needed from a non-programmer in troubleshooting?

dmitri

I just started using Traffic shaping and noticed the same thing. The reason it was happening for me is that I was using Suricata with Inline mode. There is apparently an issue with netmap.

If you're using Suricata with inline mode, try to disable it and see if it helps. If it does help, switch to Legacy mode instead.

dmitri

Just to clarify, I actually don't know if Inline mode of Suricata breaks the traffic shaping, it may or it may just be a reporting issue. Because it also breaks the outbound bandwidth graph, but you still have outbound traffic.

Fry-kun

Looks like internally the server runs pfctl -s queue -v which doesn't print borrows by default. Neither does pftop -v queue, which was mentioned in the bug.
The code to pass along the values is there, so this is just visual.
If you want a quick patch, edit /usr/local/www/status_queues.php and append || 0 to the following lines:

-                                        borrows = parseFloat(queue['borrows']);
-                                        suspends = parseFloat(queue['suspends']);
+                                        borrows = parseFloat(queue['borrows'] || 0);
+                                        suspends = parseFloat(queue['suspends'] || 0);

almostmagic

@Fry-kun said in Queues show NaN values, why?:

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Thanks for this! Setting up HFSC is not quick and easy on 7 WAN connections.