Valdrin MUJA [[email protected]] wrote: > Hello Misc, > > I run OpenBSD 7.3 as L3 firewall under VMware. I have some rdr-to rules. > > Here System information: > cpu15: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6338 CPU @ 2.00GHz, 1995.63 MHz, 06-6a-06 > I know CPU cores are not at too important at the moment but this server has > 16 cores on it. > I use vmx nics. dmesg is attached. > > When traffic becomes high(*) systems slows. (Users say RDP connections are > slow) > When I checked uptime load average was ok but yeah OpenBSD was slow. > For example, when I enter ifconfig command system was not too fast. > > After that I looked at top -SH output and see 3 of softnet tasks were over > %74 and was ~%40. > > Would you suggest to increase the NET_TASKQ value to 8 or 16 (number of cores > in the system) and use a custom kernel?
Probably 8 since the kernel isn't optimized for hyper-threading. > Also, just wonder if it's CPU core dedicated value or not? > > P.S. I don't use pfsync and it's not in my plan... > There's a possible MP rework hitting the tree soon if you did want to use pfsync.
