Performance / CPU issues at high speed with Netgate SG-2440

[zwoop]

Hi,

I seem to become CPU bound (one of the two CPUs pegged at 100%) during high network throughput. At around 600Mbps, on the WAN link, this seems to happen. Is that expected? Is my device too under powered for that sort of throughput?

Is there some setting / feature I should change or turn off, to increase bandwidth throughput? Ideally, I'd like to get to the full 1Gbps :-).

-- Leif

Device info:

Netgate SG-2440
2.4.3-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)
built on Thu May 10 15:02:57 CDT 2018
FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p19

Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C2358 @ 1.74GHz
Current: 1600 MHz, Max: 2100 MHz
2 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s)
AES-NI CPU Crypto: Yes (active)

[SammyWoo]

@zwoop said in Performance / CPU issues at high speed with Netgate SG-2440: Is my device too under powered for that sort of throughput?

Apparently. I personally suggest an I3 class cpu if you are approaching 1 gig.

One thing u can try, go into config -> system -> advance, and make sure cpu is at full ALL TIME and not speed-stepping.

[Derelict]

Ensure PowerD is enabled and set to either Hiadaptive or Maximum.

System > Advanced, Miscellaneous

What packages are you running?

How is your WAN provisioned? PPPoE? DHCP? Static?