SG-3100 Question

A Former User

I have another SG-3100 question. This time I am thinking about replacing a Supermicro 5018D-FN4T (aka XG-1541) with a SG-3100. The Supermicro is, obviously, massive overkill for this application. It's a home network with low to moderate use, mix of laptops, phones/ipads, a couple of Apple TV's and a bunch of Sonos Speakers. 200/20 Mb/sec service (Charter/Spectrum).

I look at the memory usage (see below) and I am a little concerned that 2GB is going to be an issue. I'm not up on how BSD's do memory management but I think it's wired all that memory because it can, not because it needs to. The Supermicro has 32GB.

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Two packages are in use: NUT and pfblockerNG. Some of the tables from pfblocker are big, >12000 ip's (firehol lists).

I would like to see zero swap usage on the 3100, is that unreasonable?

Anyhow, any words of wisdom or experience will be appreciated.

Thanks!

BTW: that supermicro was originally bought for another purpose that never happened, was repurposed because I had no other use for it. It's really loud and sucks electricity. It needs to be replaced.

A Former User

I was hoping someone from netgate would chime in and say either: No worries, your good to go OR that will work fine if lay off the enormous block lists.

Anyone?

stephenw10

It will probably work fine either way but I've never tried running with such a huge list set. Certainly there is no problem running pfBlocker with smaller lists, I have that running here and have never seen an issue.

===[ DNSBL Domain/IP Counts ] ===================================

   23346 total
   19324 /var/db/pfblockerng/dnsbl/Easylist_Default.txt
    4018 /var/db/pfblockerng/dnsbl/Easylist_Privacy.txt
       4 /var/db/pfblockerng/dnsbl/Custom_List_custom.txt

====================[ Last Updated List Summary ]==============

May 16	19:30	Spamhaus_drop
May 21	00:00	pfB_NAmerica_v4
May 21	00:00	Google
May 21	00:00	Facebook

IPv4 alias tables IP count
-----------------------------
102349

IPv6 alias tables IP count
-----------------------------
0

Alias table IP Counts
-----------------------------
  102349 total
   94339 /var/db/aliastables/pfB_NAmerica_v4.txt
    7254 /var/db/aliastables/pfB_ASN_List.txt
     756 /var/db/aliastables/pfB_Spamhaus.txt

pfSense Table Stats
-------------------
table-entries hard limit  1000000
Table Usage Count         214572

last pid: 83837;  load averages:  0.29,  0.18,  0.15                                               up 2+05:59:30  16:49:48
59 processes:  1 running, 58 sleeping
CPU:  0.8% user,  0.0% nice,  0.6% system,  0.0% interrupt, 98.6% idle
Mem: 112M Active, 528M Inact, 275M Wired, 64M Buf, 1074M Free
Swap: 

  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME     CPU COMMAND
60200 unbound       2  20    0   222M   128M select  0  21:57   0.00% unbound
70480 root          1  52    0   100M 38560K accept  1   1:04   0.00% php-fpm
84074 root          1  52    0   100M 37224K accept  0   1:07   0.00% php-fpm
44473 root          1  34    0 98784K 35576K accept  1   1:03   0.00% php-fpm
 2769 root          1  34    0 98784K 35468K accept  1   1:02   1.09% php-fpm
85411 root          1  52    0 98720K 34616K accept  1   0:02   0.00% php-fpm
  663 root          1  20    0 89368K 25520K kqread  0   0:06   0.00% php-fpm
74860 root          1  20    0 44332K 31960K nanslp  1   1:26   0.05% php
57636 root         73  20    0 38112K  8220K uwait   0   0:10   0.00% filterdns
23687 root         17  52    0 35396K 16848K sigwai  0   1:00   0.05% charon
69931 root          1  20    0 22096K  7280K kqread  0   0:32   0.05% nginx
69978 root          1  20    0 22096K  7164K kqread  0   0:20   0.00% nginx
69412 root          1  52    0 20048K  5872K pause   1   0:00   0.00% nginx
59477 root          1  20    0 11604K  7392K piperd  0   0:00   0.00% sshg-parser
79277 root          1  20    0 11172K  7308K select  0   0:00   0.01% sshd
71697 root          1  20    0 11100K 11128K select  0   0:29   0.01% ntpd
15913 root          1  20    0 10852K  6896K select  1   0:00   0.00% sshd
79185 dhcpd         1  20    0 10092K  6288K select  0   0:23   0.01% dhcpd
 2027 root          1  20    0  8972K  5408K kqread  0   0:14   0.00% lighttpd_pfb

Steve

A Former User

Thanks!