I have a new CRS upgraded to 6.6 and firmware 3.10. With no load on the box just running the profiler it has 5 to 7% CPU usage from “management”. The RB2011 this replaced with the same config was running 99.5 to 99% idle. Anyone know what explains the difference?
I am facing the same issue in RouterOS 6.38.1 on a CRS226-24G-2S+. No firewall setting, no contrack, no BGP nor any routing, just switching less than 1 (one) mbit/s. Something is very wrong.
on the CRS you should expect to see between a few % to 50% just for management. The CPUs on them are weak but even comparing to the RB450G management will take between 2-4% CPU when clocked higher. I wish MT would allow overclocking for various routerboards currently out even the CCR series as well as the CPU datasheet lists 1.5Ghz as an option. Some of us have modded CCRs with way better cooling with mine for instance running totally silent during loads.
I know the CPU on CRS is only meant for managing it only but it still is a full MIPS routerOS which you can run some of routerOS services and use the other features routerOS has. If it could be clocked up it would certainly be interesting and faster to run more scripts. I just dont get why the 2 CRS lines out have different amounts of ram. The switch chip on the CRS is part of the CPU so it would be nice to have more switching performance on the CRS226 with 2SFP+ for more managed switching performance. Its only wirespeed when used as a dumb switch but when you add rules and configs to the switch chip it doesnt become wirespeed anymore if you look at the performance charts.
I have similiar issues with my CRS125 running the latest stable firmware. I was noticing a bottleneck going out to my WAN.
Allowing DNS Remote Requests was using 80-85% of my cpu with total CPU utilization at 100%. Disabling this brought my overall CPU usage down to a respectable level.