I am running into performance issues and would like to have better throughput with my PFSense. I run my Proxmox in a colo location for a very decent price. It is a dual 2.6GHz E5-2650 with 40GB of RAM on an Intel S2600GZ motherboard
For good security, I have all the traffic go through PFSense, which gives me a far amount of projection. However, I have not been able to get more than 200Mbps throughput. No matter what I do, which is, give it more memory or a few more cores, it doesn't budge. I am trying to follow the easy answers that is out there, but this performance is abysmal and I expected more. I have okay hardware and it should be able to do more, but it isn't.
For example, even if I don't go out to the internet and I am using OVS VLAN, I can iperf it and I get 200 Mbps. The issue is PFSense, but I don't know why. It has four cores, but it's not using all four. What gives....
For good security, I have all the traffic go through PFSense, which gives me a far amount of projection. However, I have not been able to get more than 200Mbps throughput. No matter what I do, which is, give it more memory or a few more cores, it doesn't budge. I am trying to follow the easy answers that is out there, but this performance is abysmal and I expected more. I have okay hardware and it should be able to do more, but it isn't.
For example, even if I don't go out to the internet and I am using OVS VLAN, I can iperf it and I get 200 Mbps. The issue is PFSense, but I don't know why. It has four cores, but it's not using all four. What gives....
Code:
iperf -s
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Server listening on TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default)
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[ 4] local 192.168.20.6 port 5001 connected with 192.168.20.10 port 44024
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 16.0 GBytes 13.8 Gbits/sec
[ 4] local 192.168.20.6 port 5001 connected with 192.168.0.2 port 53032
[ 4] 0.0-10.1 sec 225 MBytes 187 Mbits/sec