pfSense refuses to reboot

Gertjan

First, check why it is slow.
You do this be lookup up what it is doing.
It's one click away : Diagnostics > System Activity

Example :

PID USERNAME    PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    C   TIME    WCPU COMMAND
 11 root        187 ki31     0B    32K RUN      0 135.7H 100.00% [idle{idle: cpu0}]
 11 root        187 ki31     0B    32K CPU1     1 132.5H  90.58% [idle{idle: cpu1}]
85893 root         68    0   150M    64M piperd   1   0:35   8.15% php-fpm: pool nginx (php-fpm){php-fpm}
84969 root         68    0   117M    60M accept   1   0:19   1.56% php-fpm: pool nginx (php-fpm)
65579 unbound      20    0   182M   158M kqread   0   9:16   0.39% /usr/local/sbin/unbound -c /var/unbound/unbound.conf{unbound}
65579 unbound      20    0   182M   158M kqread   1  11:33   0.29% /usr/local/sbin/unbound -c /var/unbound/unbound.conf{unbound}
....

The top resource intensive process are at the top : mine are "being idle" although I'm still routing 300+ Mbytes per sec right now.

Btw :

The dashboard page, deepening on what widgets you have activated, can be somewhat slow as you said yourself : a lot of resources are needed to update that page every x seconds.
Solution : close the page or look at another, more useful page like the log pages.

@kravenul said in pfSense refuses to reboot:

or simply a corrupted file system

It takes a minute to be sure about that, and deal with it. Go here and click play.