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Hardware and Performance / Trying out OPNSENSE and must be missing something related to performance config
« on: February 13, 2018, 11:47:04 pm »
Forgive my ignorance, I'm clearly new to opnsense but I figured that I would give it a try.
I used m0n0wall for years and was kind of turned off by the throw everything and the kitchen sink approach that PFsense took so I migrated to endian for a long time.
My issue is that I've just installed the amd64 version of opnsense on my box and I seem to be getting about 15% less throughput down than I did on the same box using endian.
This is the box that I'm running it on
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GIVQI3M/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
When I boot it into endian or even just bare ubuntu with iptables nat and firewall running I consistently get
930-950Mbps down and nearly exactly the same up but if I boot into opnsense the best I ever get is 790 down but about 900 up.
I've repeated this test about a dozen times. I've tried adding more ram, taking away ram, etc and am just not getting anywhere. Is there something that I can check/do to get the performance to be closer to the same since we are talking about an apples to apples comparison hardware, cabling, etc wise and the only difference is the OS?
I used m0n0wall for years and was kind of turned off by the throw everything and the kitchen sink approach that PFsense took so I migrated to endian for a long time.
My issue is that I've just installed the amd64 version of opnsense on my box and I seem to be getting about 15% less throughput down than I did on the same box using endian.
This is the box that I'm running it on
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GIVQI3M/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
When I boot it into endian or even just bare ubuntu with iptables nat and firewall running I consistently get
930-950Mbps down and nearly exactly the same up but if I boot into opnsense the best I ever get is 790 down but about 900 up.
I've repeated this test about a dozen times. I've tried adding more ram, taking away ram, etc and am just not getting anywhere. Is there something that I can check/do to get the performance to be closer to the same since we are talking about an apples to apples comparison hardware, cabling, etc wise and the only difference is the OS?