Sensei - Issues with upgrade to OPNs 20.1?

[BNaCl]

Curious to know if anyone is experiencing issues with Sensei and OPNs 20.1? Everything was running fine until I upgraded to 20.1 and now the report widgets are extremely slow to load. The configuration screens are slow as well. Re-install and everything runs fine for awhile but slowly degrades.

Opened a case with Sensei support and they believe it is the processor, yet there are no signs of bottlenecks in the perf data. Also, seems odd considering it was working just fine prior. I am using a Protectli FW4B with Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU J3160 @ 1.60GHz (4 cores), 8 GB RAM and SSD. Only 3 users in the house and they aren't doing anything crazy. Usually less than 5 concurrent devices using discernible FW resources yet the DB seems large and grows to 500MB+ within 24 hours of fresh install.

Really enjoyed the features of Sensei and don't want to purchase a new box unless necessary.


 

[BNaCl]

Following up on this after a complete re-install...

Things are slowly bogging down again and the DB seems to grow at a pretty good clip - (40 MB growth in approx 12 hours). CPU load increased dramatically when enabling security, app and web controls. Just seems odd as there is literally no traffic because nobody home (under 100k bps). Yet with Sensei running the CPU is showing load averages of: 0.68, 0.56, 0.62 (or higher with spikes over 1.0).

My hardware is a Protectli FW4B with 4 core Intel J3160, 8 GB RAM and SSD which seems to exceed the "recommended" spec for OPNs. I suppose it's possible the Celeron could be an issue??

Based on this is seems Sensei is extremely CPU intensive and requires a i5 or better even for small deployments. Before I scrap my (brand new) hardware, curious to know the hardware specs of others who are running Sensei with success.

[BNaCl]

After a complete re-install of Sensei things are much better. I think that something must have not gone well with the 20.1 upgrade.

Turns out I was misinterpreting the load averages and thought it was a straight percentage. Considering I have 4 cores, the numbers aren't bad at all. However, the widgets on the dashboard and reports are still slow when setting the time-frame to anything larger than 1 hour. It addition I can't seem to achieve my max bandwidth with Sensei enabled. Works just fine without it.

Sunny Valley suggests a i5 with a clock speed of 3GHz or better for my bandwidth 400/20. I think this is where my setup falls short. The thing that is perplexing is the load averages and CPU performance data doesn't seem to support this, but it is possible I am missing the bottleneck in the perfdata.

Still interested in comparing specs of people running Sensei.

[dagazarcane]

Hi,

I have the box and love sensei but am finding it slowing down things. mainly the network connection. Agree also that the dashboard looks nice but takes ages to load.

Sometimes basic reports and exports would be nicer as an option over the fancy rings. 

Love the features though so at the moment seeing how it goes.