High cpu usage when i upload/download

Neo_t3

Hi,

I have pfSense 1.2.3 (4Go embedded) on an WRAP 1E-1 (233MHz), when i download or upload (ADSL 24Mb/1Mb) i can see on pfSense webGui or with Cacti, an very high CPU usage :

When CPU is on top, i can't access normaly to pfSense WebGui, and DNS request are too long.

There is my /etc/sysctl.conf, modded with this howto : http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Installation_Tuning


# Do not send RSTs for packets to closed ports
net.inet.tcp.blackhole=2
# Do not send ICMP port unreach messages for closed ports
net.inet.udp.blackhole=1
# Generate random IP_ID's
net.inet.ip.random_id=1
# Breaks RFC1379, but nobody uses it anyway
net.inet.tcp.drop_synfin=1
net.inet.ip.redirect=1
net.inet.tcp.syncookies=1
net.inet.tcp.recvspace=65228
net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65228
# fastforwarding - see http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2004-January/002534.html
net.inet.ip.fastforwarding=1
net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0
net.inet.udp.maxdgram=57344
kern.rndtest.verbose=0
net.link.bridge.pfil_onlyip=0
net.link.tap.user_open=1
# The system will attempt to calculate the bandwidth delay product for each connection 
#and limit the amount of data queued to the network to just the amount required to maintain optimum throughput.
net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable=1
net.inet.ip.portrange.first=1024
net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen=1000
net.link.bridge.pfil_bridge=0
# Disable TCP extended debugging
net.inet.tcp.log_debug=0
# Set a reasonable ICMPLimit
net.inet.icmp.icmplim=500
# TSO causes problems with em(4)
# and reply-to, and isn't of much benefit in a firewall, disable.
net.inet.tcp.tso=0

Have an idee for this problem ?

Thanks a lot, best regards

Jerome

MageMinds

Search the forum and doc for tuning your WRAP. Basically you need to enable polling on your network card, so the cpu doesn't get hammered by interrupts from the network card.

MageMinds