Just to confirm:
The 750mbps download/1800mbps upload makes sense? There must be more processing
in the network stack on the download side, right?
I suspect my pf rules are pretty straightforward, but I can post the rules if
you think it’s relevant.
If all of that checks out, I’ll look to upgrade the hardware.
Brodey
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> On Nov 25, 2024, at 02:23, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
>
> On 2024/11/24 15:52, Brodey Dover wrote:
>> It's a fairly hefty system for a router.
>
> It's got a decent amount of RAM (though you won't be using much of
> that in a router), but CPU isn't particularly fast (1300MHz).
>
>> After updates speeds are up to 750down/1200up. When testing the download
>> speed, all cores are
>> stuck ~33%. When testing the upload speed, one core rockets to 100% and the
>> others are around
>> 20%.
>
> pppoe on OpenBSD does not use multiple cores. If the machine is not
> running much in the way of userland software it's possible that it
> might do slightly better with a single-processor kernel ("boot bsd.sp"
> at the boot loader prompt for a one-off test) though probably won't
> be hugely better.
>
>> cpu0: AMD Sempron(tm) 3850 APU with Radeon(tm) R3, 1297.64 MHz, 16-00-01,
>> patch 0700010f
>
> One common type of machine used for OpenBSD routers is the PC Engines
> APU, which has
>
> cpu0: AMD GX-412TC SOC, 998.17 MHz, 16-30-01, patch 07030105
>
> which is a similar class of cpu, clocked slightly lower. That usually
> gets around 500Mbps of pppoe, so I think your machine is doing broadly
> about as well as expected.
