Cancelling my subscription: feedback on the home-user value proposition

[Greg_E]

That is something to consider, I hadn't thought about the storage being any part of the slowness. There are other reason to buy the product, the policies flexibility is one of them. And when you find a product that you like, it's nice when you can support it and keep it moving forward.

[abenaou]

That is something to consider, I hadn't thought about the storage being any part of the slowness. There are other reason to buy the product, the policies flexibility is one of them. And when you find a product that you like, it's nice when you can support it and keep it moving forward.

For me what gave me the hint is these errors  :

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[52805] 196.658358 [1089] netmap_obj_free          ouch, double free on buffer 18426

[52805] 196.658370 [1089] netmap_obj_free          ouch, double free on buffer 18428

[52805] 196.658381 [1089] netmap_obj_free          ouch, double free on buffer 18432

[52807] igb1: link state changed to UP

[52854] swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 2101141, size: 65536

[52866] swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 2108016, size: 16384

[52874] swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 2101141, size: 65536

[52886] swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 2108016, size: 16384
Also, I noticed that sometimes the zenarmor live  session dashboard would throw a : Error (200), and that anything related to zenarmor was way too slow (policies, reports), and this had a snowball effect, SQLite has a single writer, it cannot write concurrently write data, having a dramless nvme meant that SQLite would "run out" of IOPS meaning that while locking the database it was also making zenarmor wait and freeze, it  caused a cascading failure where SQLite would get stuck, dragging zenarmor and then the netmap driver making the nics flap very often.

I think the most reliable solution would be to externalize elasticsearch, even if you install it locally you would reserve a big amount of resources to elasticsearch and might hit a performance bottleneck.

I know the Zenarmor team have their reasons for removing remote database support from the free tier plan, but it is almost a must to fully experience the benefits of the product, and this is not mentioned anywhere, and some people, me included, simply underestimate how demanding to run SQLite as a back-end, which means that it would be difficult to really appreciate the free tier without remote database support.