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      ryanccsi last edited by

      So I've been playing with Traffic Shaping in the office with our new SG-4860 and I'm observing intermittent performance problems where the gateway can go into packet loss and then Offline (technically online but status reports it over I think 1 second gateway timeout).

      During these times of intermittent traffic shaping hell, the Status–>Queues will show me something like this:

      Interface WAN                    Bandwidth
      Root Queue                        340.83Mbps
          qInternet                        340.83Mbps
              qACK                          8.45Mbps
              qDefault                    304.01Mbps
              qOthersHigh                28.22Mbps
              qOthersLow                471 bps
              qRDP                          154.59Kbps

      Interface LAN
      Root queue                        291.31Mbps
          qLink                            12.57 Mbps
          qInternet                      278.73Mbps
              qACK                        1.22 Mbps
              qOthersHigh              276.80 Mbps
              qOthersLow              92 bps
              qRDP                        710.18 Kbps

      Any idea what's going on? These numbers should be impossible. Our business internet speed's are pretty horrible: 25Mbps down, 2Mbps up at the moment.

      Edit: pfSense version is the latest, at 2.3.


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        moikerz last edited by

        I got fed up with the same problem - it seems the web page can't keep up with the queue updates, and it backlogs something chronic.

        Instead, try connecting to pfSense using PuTTY, and call the pfTop command: pftop -s1 -v queue. It updates a lot faster.
        (reference: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Traffic_Shaping_Guide#View_Queues_with_pfTop)

        Here's a pretty picture (attached). I have one WAN, two LANs, which is why the existing 5 Queues are repeated 3 times, once for each interface.


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          Nullity last edited by

          @moikerz:

          I got fed up with the same problem - it seems the web page can't keep up with the queue updates, and it backlogs something chronic.

          Instead, try connecting to pfSense using PuTTY, and call the pfTop command: pftop -s1 -v queue. It updates a lot faster.
          (reference: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Traffic_Shaping_Guide#View_Queues_with_pfTop)

          Here's a pretty picture (attached). I have one WAN, two LANs, which is why the existing 5 Queues are repeated 3 times, once for each interface.

          Yeah, I have never trusted the queue stats either.

          FYI, you can view pftop via the GUI. Diagnostics->pfTop :)

          Please correct any obvious misinformation in my posts.
          -Not a professional; an arrogant ignoramous.

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