Unbound blocklists - slow loading/slow statistics

[devilkin]

Hi,

I've been trying to use the unbound blocklists now for +- 6 months from the previous release into this one), and while they work, it's

• exceedingly slow to load, blocking DNS entirely during the load for 5-10 minutes
• activating the statistics dashboard takes quite some cpu load
• opening the stats dashboard is also exceedingly slow - getting any data in it takes an actual minute

Is this 'normal' for the unbound blacklist implementation? I've reverted to using Adguardhome which does not suffer from this, even when running next to Opnsense on the same box.

The hardware I'm running on is not the most powerful - an APU2E4, and I'd love to go back to just using unbound, but the fact that every time I change something in the block list or whitelist a domain it takes forever to settle has caused some ruffled feathers at home.

[CJ]

I don't have any of the issues you mention, but my hardware is a good bit faster than yours.

Have you tried connecting via ssh and running top while you're performing these actions to see if you are maxing out your CPU?