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Hardware and Performance / Re: AQC107 NIC not listed

« on: May 26, 2020, 10:32:55 pm »

The port for aquantia-atlantic-kmod should be available to install with pkg if you can pass in another NIC to your VM.

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Hardware and Performance / Re: PC Engines APU2 1Gbit traffic not achievable

« on: February 03, 2020, 10:36:44 pm »

Based on this document from pcengines the frequency is not reported correctly in sysctl. So you have to set these commands in loader.conf to get proper readings.

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hint.p4tcc.0.disabled=1
hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled=1
hint.acpi_perf.0.disabled=1

I don't quite understand if this affects the actual speed of the device though. If someone could confirm that would be amazing.

https://github.com/pcengines/apu2-documentation/blob/master/docs/apu_CPU_boost.md

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Hardware and Performance / Re: PC Engines APU2 1Gbit traffic not achievable

« on: January 21, 2020, 07:24:21 pm »

I ran the commands you wrote on the console and here is what I've got from an APU4B4:

root@OPNsense02:~ # sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels
dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1000/1008 800/831 600/628

Idle:
root@OPNsense02:~ # sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq
dev.cpu.0.freq: 1000

Under load:
root@OPNsense02:~ # sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq
dev.cpu.0.freq: 1000

So the frequency didn't really change.  Now with powerd running, here is the output where you will see the max frequency still being 1000Mhz:
root@OPNsense02:~ # sudo powerd -v
powerd: unable to determine AC line status
load   4%, current freq 1000 MHz ( 0), wanted freq  968 MHz
load   7%, current freq 1000 MHz ( 0), wanted freq  937 MHz
load   0%, current freq 1000 MHz ( 0), wanted freq  907 MHz
load   0%, current freq 1000 MHz ( 0), wanted freq  878 MHz
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I will post back with the APU4D4 and see the difference.

Thank you for posting that info. So from what I understand OPNsense is not getting the turbo clock speed info from the BIOS. I'm not exactly sure why that is the case though.

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Hardware and Performance / Re: PC Engines APU2 1Gbit traffic not achievable

« on: January 16, 2020, 01:32:13 am »

I plan on getting an APU2D4 soon since it has superseded the C4. I was wondering if anyone could check to see what

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sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels outputs and then post what

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sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq outputs under load?

I know this is an AMD based CPU, but from what I understand the CPU will not turbo unless you are running the powerd deamon. For a console based output you can run powerd with

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sudo powerd -v assuming sudo is installed on OPNsense.

I hope this helps.