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XG Firewall Home Edition CPU throttling

Seems like the CPU is always on it's maximum speed (Intel Core2Duo 6400 has a max of 2.13 Ghz), which is be visible via "# cat /proc/cpuinfo". Doesn't the CPU throttle when the CPU load is low (currently at 5%)? Can this setting be edited via the Administrator GUI or do we need to "hack it out" via the web terminal?

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0 IanMorehouse over 8 years ago

Hi,
does your bios allow for this feature? Secondly if you have IPS enabled you will want to raise the minimum cycle level so you get reasonable throughput.

Ian,

home UTM 9.x running in ESXi 6 e3-1275v2

AP55c and AP10 (courtesy Astaro)

Three other UTMs, SUM and SFM in hibernation

XG 15.x MR3 in hibernation
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0 Edgar RyanSamson over 8 years ago in reply to IanMorehouse

Yup, Bios has it. And I used to use pfSense, and it can scale the speed of the CPU depending on demand
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0 Big Ray over 8 years ago in reply to IanMorehouse

I am using IPS, How do i raise the minimum cycle level and what is the best setting? I seem to be running fine so I don't know if I need to change anything.
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0 Slawski over 8 years ago

There is another thread here which may have the same root cause. A guy said he has problems with custom machine going to sleep which leads to a suspicion that SFOS is not correctly handling ACPI events. I guess this is why CPU stays at one speed. I have checked mine and it clocks 2Ghz which is max for my CPU: Celeron J1900.

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Slawek
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0 Edgar RyanSamson over 8 years ago

In other words, we will have to wait until they add CPU scaling.
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0 IanMorehouse over 8 years ago in reply to Edgar RyanSamson

Hi guys,
this explanation from the UTM9 forum might provide an understanding of the issue. The forum member mentioned in the post has done extensive research into UTM 9 IPS performance.

community.sophos.com/.../283664

Ian,

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