Pfense 2.3.2 & CBQ : child bandwidth is higher than parent [ BUG ]

[craymore]

Hi all,

I'm trying to modify a very simple traffic shaper on a pfs 2.3.2 appliance.

Here are its specs :

LAN ( CBQ ) / Total bandwith : 90Mbps

queue    priority  bandwith %

-    q_icmp    7        5%
-    q_udp    6        10%
-    q_ACK    5        15%
-    q_high    4        20%
-    q_default 3        35%
-    q_low    2        10%
-    q_lowest  1        5%

When I try to change the bandwidth to 80Mbps, I get the follwowing error message :

The following input errors were detected: The sum of child bandwidth is higher than parent.

???

I don't understand why I'm being given such message ( considering the setup I have ).

Any help would be appreciated  :)

[Harvy66]

I have the same thing with HFSC. It's a bug with validation for percentages in pfSense. The problem is it translates the percentages into bandwidth values, so it sees the total being 90Mb when you attempt to set to 80Mb. It is not an issue if you use raw bandwidth values. Increasing your bandwidth works just fine.

A simple work around, if you wan to continue to use percentages, is to take your 35% queue and set it to 1Mb, which will bring the total below 80Mb and allow the other percentages to get set when lowering your bandwidth, then change it back to 35% since it will validate against the new 80Mb, which will again add to 100%.

[craymore]

@Harvy66:

I have the same thing with HFSC. It's a bug with validation for percentages in pfSense. The problem is it translates the percentages into bandwidth values, so it sees the total being 90Mb when you attempt to set to 80Mb. It is not an issue if you use raw bandwidth values. Increasing your bandwidth works just fine.

A simple work around, if you wan to continue to use percentages, is to take your 35% queue and set it to 1Mb, which will bring the total below 80Mb and allow the other percentages to get set when lowering your bandwidth, then change it back to 35% since it will validate against the new 80Mb, which will again add to 100%.

Thank you for your answer

I managed to modify the overall bandwidth following your advice, and it worked indeed :)

I suspected that it was a bug but was not entirely sure ( tought that there was maybe a tricky setting for a queue that was messing the entire shaper )

Has this bug been filed yet or does it need to be officially reported ?  ???

[Harvy66]

I have not reported it. I did discus it with some of the more influential people, but that doesn't mean anything in the end.

[Nullity]

I think that ALTQ's CBQ supports percentages (pbandwidth), so I wonder why pfSense changes the percentage values to absolute bandwidth values

[KOM]

So you can end up with wonky values with a precision of three decimal places?  ;D

[w0w]

I think it's related to https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/6779 and must be fixed with 2.4
I can test it later.

[w0w]

No it's not. I got same error message.
Please create ticket on redmine if you want it to be fixed.