Performance Issue
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I am only getting about 300 megabits/sec transfer speed through my pfSense machine I built a couple years ago. Its got 2 1 gigbit interfaces on it, Intel Celeron G1840 at 2.80GHz, 4 gigs ram. I should be getting around 600 megabits/sec, I get that speed connected directly to the cable modem. Anyone know of any tweaks I can do to get better throughput? Or is the computer just to slow? Everything is plugged into a gigabit switch(unmanaged).
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I can't speak specifically about your hardware, but here's what I have seen with the computer described in my sig. Typically though, I get around 940 down on my 500/20 connection. Prior to getting this computer, I was running pfSense on a HP compact desktop computer and would typically get around 530 down or so. After that computer died, I bought the computer I'm now using and immediately got a significant boost.
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@jknott
Thanks for the info...I may have to upgrade sometime in the near future. -
@eric303 I'm guessing that your computer (the pfsense box) probably doesn't have enough ooompf (cores and threads).
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/80800/intel-celeron-processor-g1840-2m-cache-2-80-ghz/specifications.html
That's a processor from 2014, and normally pfsense can just about run on anything, but that also depends on what you are wanting the machine to do. What's your internet connection - would it happen to be PPPOE connected to your WAN? That puts an immediate burden on a processor, just as an example.
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I have an Xfinity cable modem connection, 600 megabits down and 20 megabits up.
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That CPU should pass 1G easily. Unless, perhaps, it's paired with bad NICs. What do you have there?
At the command line run
top -HaSPwhilst testing the throughput. Is either CPU core at 100%?Are you running packages?
Testing over VPN?
Steve
