Cannot Achieve 10g pfsense bottleneck

TomTheOne

@Laxarus
No, I can't. I have opened a ticket with a support request at the hardware-manufacturer. They requestd some details about the test-scenario and videos. I delivered the details. Let's see if I get an update on this. I suspect my hardware is not powerfull enought, even when there are 4x 10Gbit/s SPF+ ports on the board.

TomTheOne

@Laxarus
Here some results after the modification

[2.8.0-RELEASE][admin@XX.XX.XX.XX]/root: iperf3 -c speedtest.init7.net -u -b 10G -R
Connecting to host speedtest.init7.net, port 5201
Reverse mode, remote host speedtest.init7.net is sending
[  5] local XX.XX.XX.XX port 12350 connected to 82.197.188.129 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Jitter    Lost/Total Datagrams
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   287 MBytes  2.41 Gbits/sec  0.003 ms  58505/264700 (22%)
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   295 MBytes  2.47 Gbits/sec  0.003 ms  55304/267151 (21%)
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   291 MBytes  2.44 Gbits/sec  0.004 ms  53480/262251 (20%)
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   300 MBytes  2.51 Gbits/sec  0.003 ms  55269/270479 (20%)
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   290 MBytes  2.43 Gbits/sec  0.003 ms  61091/269117 (23%)
[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec   302 MBytes  2.53 Gbits/sec  0.003 ms  53292/270271 (20%)
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   317 MBytes  2.65 Gbits/sec  0.003 ms  44540/272178 (16%)
[  5]   7.00-8.02   sec   316 MBytes  2.61 Gbits/sec  0.003 ms  42222/269450 (16%)
[  5]   8.02-9.00   sec   292 MBytes  2.50 Gbits/sec  0.003 ms  50357/260090 (19%)
[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec   292 MBytes  2.45 Gbits/sec  0.003 ms  57960/267419 (22%)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Jitter    Lost/Total Datagrams
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  3.64 GBytes  3.12 Gbits/sec  0.000 ms  0/0 (0%)  sender
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  2.91 GBytes  2.50 Gbits/sec  0.003 ms  532020/2673106 (20%)  receiver

iperf Done.
[2.8.0-RELEASE][admin@XX.XX.XX.XX]/root: iperf3 -c speedtest.init7.net -u -b 10G
Connecting to host speedtest.init7.net, port 5201
[  5] local XX.XX.XX.XX port 7880 connected to 82.197.188.129 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Total Datagrams
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   142 MBytes  1.19 Gbits/sec  102167
[  5]   1.00-2.03   sec   145 MBytes  1.19 Gbits/sec  104081
[  5]   2.03-3.06   sec   149 MBytes  1.21 Gbits/sec  107313
[  5]   3.06-4.03   sec   136 MBytes  1.17 Gbits/sec  97372
[  5]   4.03-5.01   sec   124 MBytes  1.06 Gbits/sec  89114
[  5]   5.01-6.00   sec   142 MBytes  1.21 Gbits/sec  102318
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   134 MBytes  1.13 Gbits/sec  96599
[  5]   7.00-8.03   sec   145 MBytes  1.18 Gbits/sec  104394
[  5]   8.03-9.00   sec   133 MBytes  1.15 Gbits/sec  95249
[  5]   9.00-10.03  sec   145 MBytes  1.18 Gbits/sec  104132
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Jitter    Lost/Total Datagrams
[  5]   0.00-10.03  sec  1.36 GBytes  1.17 Gbits/sec  0.000 ms  0/1002739 (0%)  sender
[  5]   0.00-10.04  sec  1.36 GBytes  1.17 Gbits/sec  0.008 ms  0/1002739 (0%)  receiver

iperf Done.

I clearly see my hardware is not able to handle it, at 2.50 Gbit/s I'm loosing 20% of the packages.

[ 5]   0.00-10.00  sec  2.91 GBytes  2.50 Gbits/sec  0.003 ms  532020/2673106 (20%)

Laxarus

@TomTheOne unfortunately for me, it did not make a difference.

pwood999

Try using multiple parallel streams. I've never managed to get full speed over 10G interfaces on any hardware.

-P, --parallel # number of parallel client streams to run