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15.7 Legacy Series / High CPU Usage, I think, please let me know if this is normal
« on: December 23, 2015, 08:02:26 pm »
Hello,
I have been using OPNsense for a few months now, and something has been bothering me. I run OPNSense on a Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.0 GHZ.
The poor processor runs at 51% or higher the entire time the system is running. I went a head and installed the updates that were available last night, This brought me up to:
"OPNsense 15.7.22-i386
FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p24
OpenSSL 1.0.2e 3 Dec 2015"
I was hoping that an update would have come out by now that addressed the issue. So my first question, is this an acceptable processor? Should I be looking for something different? I would like to know what I can do to figure out what is reaming the CPU, and how I can gather some information to help determine the issue if the problem is not the processor itself.
I have less than 15 devices in my network, and most of the time only 5 are constantly connected. This seems like a really high usage to me! Is this normal?
So far I love OPNSense, I am in the process of trying to acquire an i3 to see if putting a better processor in the machine will bring the CPU usage down any, but in the mean time I wanted to come to the forums to see what you guys recommend.
I did some searching but I wasn't able to find a topic that was closely related to mine. I found some topics that talked about Virtual Machines, but this is a physical machine and it is reporting a MUCH higher usage than 30%.
Please let me know what I can do to alleviate some stress on the CPU or to figure out what is causing the issues! I appreciate any insight and assistance!
I am in the process of setting up a secondary machine for testing. It is very similar in set up to my current firewall, this is only to test to see what the CPU usage would be like with different equipment.
I have been using OPNsense for a few months now, and something has been bothering me. I run OPNSense on a Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.0 GHZ.
The poor processor runs at 51% or higher the entire time the system is running. I went a head and installed the updates that were available last night, This brought me up to:
"OPNsense 15.7.22-i386
FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p24
OpenSSL 1.0.2e 3 Dec 2015"
I was hoping that an update would have come out by now that addressed the issue. So my first question, is this an acceptable processor? Should I be looking for something different? I would like to know what I can do to figure out what is reaming the CPU, and how I can gather some information to help determine the issue if the problem is not the processor itself.
I have less than 15 devices in my network, and most of the time only 5 are constantly connected. This seems like a really high usage to me! Is this normal?
So far I love OPNSense, I am in the process of trying to acquire an i3 to see if putting a better processor in the machine will bring the CPU usage down any, but in the mean time I wanted to come to the forums to see what you guys recommend.
I did some searching but I wasn't able to find a topic that was closely related to mine. I found some topics that talked about Virtual Machines, but this is a physical machine and it is reporting a MUCH higher usage than 30%.
Please let me know what I can do to alleviate some stress on the CPU or to figure out what is causing the issues! I appreciate any insight and assistance!
I am in the process of setting up a secondary machine for testing. It is very similar in set up to my current firewall, this is only to test to see what the CPU usage would be like with different equipment.