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From: daniel.weismueller@ipfire.org
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Subject: Re: fireperf results
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 10:06:55 +0000
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Hi Adolf,

could you please retest your system with suricata disabled.=20
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,
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> Following are the fireperf results I obtained:-
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> server: IPFire 2.25 - Core Update 153; Intel Celeron CPU J1900 @ 1.99GHz x4=
; I211 Gigabit Network
> Connection
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> client: Arch Linux; Intel Core i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz 6 core; 1GBit nic
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> Server:
> fireperf -s -P 10000 -p 63000:630010
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> 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.
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> fireperf -c <IP address> -P 10 -x -p 63000:63010 ->250 - 500 cps fluctuating
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> fireperf -c <IP address> -P 100 -x -p 63000:63010 -> 220 - 1000 cps fluctua=
ting
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> fireperf -c <IP address> -P 1000 -x -p 63000:63010 -> 1200 - 2500 cps fluct=
uating
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> fireperf -c <IP address> -P 10000 -x -p 63000:63010 -> 0 - 7000 cps hugely =
fluctuating
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> In all cases the cpu utilisation was quite low on both IPFire and the Arch =
Linux desktop.
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> I then repeated the above tests removing the -x option so I could see the d=
ata bandwidth.
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> fireperf -c <IP address> -P 1 -p 63000:63010 -> 225Mb/s - 1 core at 100%, r=
est around 30% to 40%
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> fireperf -c <IP address> -P 10 -p 63000:63010 -> 185Mb/s - similar as above
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> fireperf -c <IP address> -P 100 -p 63000:63010 -> 210Mb/s - similar to above
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> fireperf -c <IP address> -P 1000 -p 63000:63010 -> 370 - 450Mb/s - 2 cores =
at 100%, rest at 30% to
> 40%
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> fireperf -c <IP address> -P 10000 -p 63000:63010 -> 400Mb/s - 1Gb/s - 2 cor=
es at 100%, rest at 40%
> to 50%
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> I recently got my Glass Fibre Gigabit connection connected. The supplier ho=
oked his laptop directly
> to the media converter and got around 950Mb/s
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> Using the same speed test as he used but going through my IPFire hardware I=
 get around 225Mb/s.
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> Although my hardware has four Intel I211 Gigabit NIC's, I have suspected th=
at their performance is
> limited by the processor.
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> Regards,
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> Adolf.

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