OPNSense 24.10 Business - Dashboard Performance

[RayM]

Hi,

Just wanted to point out that the dashboard after the upgrade, looks really good.

That said, one of the widget (Firewall) ends up crashing the browser tab after a few minutes.  I was able to see from the debugging console that a lot of calls to a function took 89% of the rendering performance.  Removing the widget fixes the issue.  My guess is  that it's polling real-time all firewall events, and when you have moderate traffic, it starts causing freezes and the tab eventually crash with a SIGTerm. The same behaviour on both, main and ha appliance.

Not a huge issue, but still a bit annoying.

Thanks for all the work on opnsense!

[franco]

Hi,

Sounds like https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/7975

Can you try this patch?

# opnsense-patch https://github.com/opnsense/core/commit/2e50dc12


Cheers,
Franco

[vicuvic]

Hi Franco

I disabled the logging on all the FW policies, I will try to reproduce the issue to see if the NIC will crash again.
I understood that Realtek is not having full compatibility with OPNsense, and I am looking to replace it with an Intel card.

[franco]

This issue should not be influenced by Realtek driver. It's a network load issue which may clog down the firewall live dashboard widget.


Cheers,
Franco

[RayM]

Yep!  Much better.  I can still hear the cpu fan and see higher CPU usage when on the dashboard, but it doesn't freeze anymore and dashboard performance are good.  Thank you kindly!!

[franco]

Thanks for confirming. A better fix will hit 24.7.7 and possibly a 24.10 hotfix later this week.


Cheers,
Franco