CPU utilization

RouterOS General
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Hi,

New user.

I’m playing with RouterOS on a 750GL board. While downloading at a speed of around 70 Mbit/sec, I have CPU utilization of over 50%, peaking at 85-90%.

I only have a few (<10) firewall&NAT rules.

Same configuration with DD-WRT on an TPlink1043ND ver 1 router is under 10% CPU. The CPU is equivalent in power.

Does this make sense ?


Thanks

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good chance to try fast track

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Thank you.

Tried FastTrack. It reduces the CPU to around 15% at 60 Mb/s incoming, which is 4 -5 times better than before. This is with default FW/NAT definitions.

I’ll see what happens with more complex definitions, if at all FT is workable.

Still DD-WRT on similar platform is only 5% CPU.

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Maybe you can optimise / rethink your firewall rules. Queues and mangling consumes a lot too…