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Feedback on Hardware — Hardware Tuning and Troubleshooting

Added by Marcos M over 3 years ago. Updated over 3 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
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Category:
Hardware
Target version:
-
Start date:
10/28/2020
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Description

Page: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/hardware/tune.html

Feedback:
Multi-queue allows network performance to scale with the number of vCPUs and allows for parallel packet processing by creating multiple TX and RX queues. It would be nice to add some information about these tunables when on ESXi using vmx.

For example, on an 8 vCPU VM:

Edit/create the following file
/boot/loader.conf.lcoal

Add the following content
hw.pci.honor_msi_blacklist=0
hw.vmx.txnqueue=8
hw.vmx.rxnqueue=8
hw.vmx.txndesc=2048
hw.vmx.rxndesc=2048

Reboot firewall and check queues
vmstat -i

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