High Latency

g0dsp33d · Jun 3, 2006, 12:46 PM

I was wondering if anyone has had lots of high latency on their pfSense box with a good amount of traffic on it.

Running a
Tyan Mobo
533Mhz Celeron
256Mb PC133 RAM

I'm getting latency from 300ms to 1000ms. The wireless backhaul link the traffic goes over is a 7Mb Link. I have my traffic shaper configured for 4500Kb down and 2500Kb up. Both of which are maxed 90% of the time. I am also using the eZ Shaper Wizard for configuring the traffic shaper, lowering p2p, prioritize other protocolls with voip.

My processor load bounces quite abit from 30% to 70% and memory stays around 20%. This machine is also DHCPing out a /24 to everyone.

The firewall is also set to agressive.

Is this too much load for this processor? I can't put my thumb on it why I am getting so much latency.

hoba · Jun 3, 2006, 2:27 PM

I don't even get this kind of latency with my adsl2+ 16mbit/s down, 1 mbit/s up using a WRAP (266MHz,128MB RAM) which is way slower hardware. I guess it's a problem with the wireless link (noise?).

ZGamer · Jun 3, 2006, 7:53 PM

@hoba:

my adsl2+ 16mbit/s down, 1 mbit/s up

plots digging a trench and installing network to hoba's house