Should the install be slow on a P3/600

[MvdL]

I am considering changing to pfsense from ipcop.org. I have an old compaq P3/600 similar to what I use for ipcop.org. I decided to try to first install pfsense on my regular network prior to putting it in place as my current firewall. However, after I got it running on the LAN, browsing to the pfsense web interface is unbearably slow (I'm talking minutes to get my info back to the browser…). I double checked the hardware, it seems OK.

My sense it's because something is not configured right yet (given I'm only plugged in with one network cable yet, I did expect the 'watchdog messages' on the console), but other than that, I have no clue what to expect. Anything I can look at in logs or some such? Couldn't find much in the documentation, but perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[freezero]

My experience,You must have better hardware.The most important:enough ram.

I'm using a pc with celeron 1.1g cpu and 512m ram,works good.

[wallabybob]

Suggestion:

ssh into the pfSense box, login and post the output of the shell commands

vmstat -i

ps ax

pciconf -l

and tell us the version of pfSense you are using and the amount of RAM in the system.