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earmuff@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The question is what you do with your pfsense. IDS/IPS are quite CPU hungry and Celerons are not really fast CPU’s.

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catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

peak CPU demand as speedtest-cli was running was in the 60% region, far from a saturated CPU and RAM only occupied for about 30%

It doesn’t look like he’s bound by CPU.

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- earmuff@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  And he is currently at 1/3 of the potential speed and 3*60% = 180% CPU load for 1Gbits. So I wouldn’t even bother troubleshooting further when you already know the hardware will be an issue sooner or later.
  
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  - catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That assumes that all of the 60% is for pushing packets, which is almost certainly not the case.
    
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    earmuff@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    True. But since OP is using a benchmark anyways, I don‘t know how close to real world that is. If they are doing lots of filesharing, let‘s say with P2P networks, it could be way worse because of the number of connections. So I agree with you - I was just working with the info I had :)
    
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