Hi Adolf,

could you please retest your system with suricata disabled. 
I think surucata will also have a strong impact on cps.
I will post the results to the wiki.

Thanks,
Daniel

16. Februar 2021 13:44, "Adolf Belka (ipfire-dev)" <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> schrieb:

> Hi All,
> 
> Following are the fireperf results I obtained:-
> 
> server: IPFire 2.25 - Core Update 153; Intel Celeron CPU J1900 @ 1.99GHz x4; I211 Gigabit Network
> Connection
> 
> client: Arch Linux; Intel Core i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz 6 core; 1GBit nic
> 
> Server:
> fireperf -s -P 10000 -p 63000:630010
> 
> Client:
> fireperf -c <IP address> -P 1 -x -p 63000:63010 -> 100 - 3000 cps strongly fluctuating. After a
> couple of minutes the client cps went down to 0 and stayed there. I had to stop fireperf and
> restart the terminal to get it working again.
> 
> fireperf -c <IP address> -P 10 -x -p 63000:63010 ->250 - 500 cps fluctuating
> 
> fireperf -c <IP address> -P 100 -x -p 63000:63010 -> 220 - 1000 cps fluctuating
> 
> fireperf -c <IP address> -P 1000 -x -p 63000:63010 -> 1200 - 2500 cps fluctuating
> 
> fireperf -c <IP address> -P 10000 -x -p 63000:63010 -> 0 - 7000 cps hugely fluctuating
> 
> In all cases the cpu utilisation was quite low on both IPFire and the Arch Linux desktop.
> 
> I then repeated the above tests removing the -x option so I could see the data bandwidth.
> 
> fireperf -c <IP address> -P 1 -p 63000:63010 -> 225Mb/s - 1 core at 100%, rest around 30% to 40%
> 
> fireperf -c <IP address> -P 10 -p 63000:63010 -> 185Mb/s - similar as above
> 
> fireperf -c <IP address> -P 100 -p 63000:63010 -> 210Mb/s - similar to above
> 
> fireperf -c <IP address> -P 1000 -p 63000:63010 -> 370 - 450Mb/s - 2 cores at 100%, rest at 30% to
> 40%
> 
> fireperf -c <IP address> -P 10000 -p 63000:63010 -> 400Mb/s - 1Gb/s - 2 cores at 100%, rest at 40%
> to 50%
> 
> I recently got my Glass Fibre Gigabit connection connected. The supplier hooked his laptop directly
> to the media converter and got around 950Mb/s
> 
> Using the same speed test as he used but going through my IPFire hardware I get around 225Mb/s.
> 
> Although my hardware has four Intel I211 Gigabit NIC's, I have suspected that their performance is
> limited by the processor.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adolf.