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    Q330G4 Dropping WAN & Idle 30% CPU Usage

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      afritzsche
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      I was moving my pfSense from and old Athlon II X3 to a Q330G4. I was expecting better performance, but I noticed that I went from I typical 3% CPU load to a 30% load on the new hardware. I don't have a whole lot going on for packages and network traffic is pretty minimal as well.

      More importantly, I noticed that my WAN drops out frequently on the new hardware. I mostly only notice it when I am playing video games, which is the worst time for it. I hook everything back up to my old hardware and no problem.

      On the new hardware, I am importing a backup config from the old hardware. Could there be a setting that is in there somewhere that the new hardware would not like? Ideally I would test with a new config, but I do have a few VLANs, Rules and quite a few reverse proxy things in here that would be quite tedious to set up again from scratch.

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        afritzsche
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        Also forgot to mention that on the old hardware I am running 2.4.5 and the new is running 2.5.2

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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          Run top -aSH at the command line and see what's using the CPU per core.

          It might be stuck at a power saving CPU frequency or something similar.

          Steve

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