Netflow - again high I/O

Started by GreenMatter, Today at 07:41:49 AM

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So it seems all started with upgrade to 26.1 and at that time (January) issues with Neighbours Discovery. That was sorted out by the next upgrades/fixes but I started having similar issues with netflow/rrd. Once they are enabled, they cause high I/O and CPU demand. I tried, repair and reset netflow/rrd data plus manual removal of content of /various/netflow/ folder (with stopped neighbours discovery and netflow). Nothing helps; currently system is up to date: 26.1.6.
How to fix it?
OPNsense on:
Intel(R) Xeon(R) E-2278G CPU @ 3.40GHz (4 cores)
8 GB RAM
50 GB HDD
and plenty of vlans ;-)

Writing above post triggered better thinking ;-). The culprit was selection of VPNs' interfaces in netflow settings. Once they've been removed, all went back to normal...
OPNsense on:
Intel(R) Xeon(R) E-2278G CPU @ 3.40GHz (4 cores)
8 GB RAM
50 GB HDD
and plenty of vlans ;-)

Don't save netflow data on OPNsense. Export to a netflow collector like Elastiflow and save your SSD 🙂
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