can load balancer use more than 1 cpu?
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can it be assigned more than one cpu core to virutal pfsense on vmware? Or it can just use single cpu power?
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The whole pfSense VM? Yes.
HAProxy? Yes
Relayd? You should be using HAProxy
Steve
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@stephenw10 said in can load balancer use more than 1 cpu?:
The whole pfSense VM? Yes.
Yea, The whole pfSense VM? Yes.
How can i do that? i cant find a way, i did add more cpu, but is it any addition setup in pfsense itself to use all cores? Or just add core to vm and thats it? Load balancer then use all? -
Yes, pfSense will use CPU cores available to it when it can.
It can't use any number of cores equally though so adding more cores will not double performance.
Going from 1 to 2 cores will see significant improvements though.Steve
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@stephenw10 but, in general, load balancer in pfsense dont use JUST one core?
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No, it will use multiple cores.
Not sure which load-balanver you are using here though.
Steve
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@stephenw10 realyd, it was created a years ago.
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OK, you should move to HAProxy. Relayd is deprecated in 2.5, you will not be able to upgrade if you still require it.
Relayd uses pf to do the forwarding and since that is multi-threaded in pfSense I would expect the load-balancer to be also.Steve
