Webgui slow?
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It is slow just doing a basic install, without any packages, on hard drives between 6-10GB. I know memory is not an issue has I have put between 256-512MB. Most of the time the issue is not just speed, but just unresponsive. Since the pages are loading up through a LAN that discounts bandwidth. I am going to see what the new beta version does and get back.
One disclaimer that I should point out is I do not run the live CD, these are all installed on the hard drive. That is one reason I am looking at Pfsense over m0n0wall is the installation feature which allows extra packages. At the moment although m0n0wall can be installed on a HD, there are no packages available.
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I have pfSense installed on about 6 different machines, ranging from 300mhz Celerons, up to a Pentium 3. I have never experienced slowness with the webgui on any of these boxes. And since lighty became the http server du jour, the webui got even snappier.
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If the shaper is enabled, please turn it off (especially if you have a slow WAN connection) and try again.
–Bill
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I started using pfSense just last week and I dont particularly find the wegui slow, sometimes unresponsive but not slow.
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I started using pfSense just last week and I dont particularly find the wegui slow, sometimes unresponsive but not slow.
If you have 128 megs of ram, its going to speed up quite a bit now that fast-cgi is enabled and fully working for beta 2.
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On beta 2 with a Soekris 4501, the average page load time is now 3 seconds, down from 9-12s.
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Most pages are even below 2 seconds now on the wrap (benched with fasterfox) ;D
I just benched comparable pages (captive portal) between a m0n0 1.21 and pfsense 1.0beta2 and they are equal when using the pfsense-theme (m0n0 like one with the side navigation). Even when using the metallic theme most pages are loading in less than 2 seconds now.
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So hurry up with b2 ;D.
Just kidding guys, take your time ;).
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Last night I installed the latest beta version on a 400Mhz w/256 RAM. After connecting to the GUI and hopping through the setup pages, I went to the sections to configure for my use. Setup password ok, snmp ok, then went to the IPSEC page and from there it went down hill. I filled out the parameters for my VPN connection, then went I went to see the page just hung. After a while I just figured it wasn't going to load. So I tried to browse to the index page, though it never loaded. I reboot the machine and was never able to pull up a gui.
It was then I decided to pull swap out the drive and install in a 600Mhz w/768 RAM. This actually was worse. Upon first load of the webgui it came up fine. But the first link I hit (next?) it just hanged there. Never did get the gui up again.
Is there some way I can look at a log/debug of this? I don't think what I am describing is helping any in terms of determining the cause of the problem.
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Did you do a full reinstall or an upgrade? If you did a upgrade please reinstall from ISO.
Also, please start a new thread as this has nothing to do with the webGUI being slow, broken is completely different.