i just run very simple test. 1GB network, 500 MB test file on web server and wget from centos 6 and freebsd 8.3 vm's, both with virtio. wget -nd --no-proxy http://server/test -O /dev/null result is the same: Length: 524288000 (500M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/dev/null' 100%[====================>] 524,288,000 112M/s in 4.5s then i try freebsd with fetch freebsd8:~% fetch -o /dev/null -d http://server/test /dev/null 100% of 500 MB 41 MBps 00m00s fetch is 2.5x slower. that's interesting. i don't know what's the difference between fetch and wget but i'll try to found out. On 04/29/2013 08:26 PM, Nux! wrote: > On 29.04.2013 18:54, Ilya Ponetayev wrote: >> I have about ten installations of pfSense 2 in CentOS/KVM as FreeBSD >> 8.x >> profile and experience no problems except significant CPU load at >> 50-100 >> Mbps stream shaping/routing/filtering (about 50-60% of one Penitum >> G630 >> core at 75 MBps), but this is because of e1000 nics emulation (freebsd >> 8.x in pfsense 2 has no virtio drivers included as I can remember). > > I too wanted to use PFSense on KVM/EL6 but network performance was > disappointing. My network engineers reverted to using VMware ESXi for > the time being. > My hope is with Fbsd 10 which includes virtio drivers by default (and > also has a SMP friendly PF :> ). > > BTW, here's a QCOW2 of it, import image as RHEL6 profile (has all the > virtio stuff): > http://li.nux.ro/download/openstack/images/fbsd10-snap-20130316-r248381-TESTING.qcow2 > > The root passwd is "password" so change it ASAP! > > Even with this image I could not saturate 1 Gbps link (just rudimentary > test with "fetch -o /dev/null"), but it's still an improvement. > _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
