Performance

Getting OPNsense to perform well on a low-powered CPU, e.g. the APU4d4 board, can be tricky. One particular problem has been DNS resolution latency with unbound. I measured Unbound in various configuration variants with dnsperf and am presenting my results here.

Getting OPNsense to perform well on a low-powered CPU, e.g. the APU4d4 board, can be tricky. As there are some open questions, this post summarizes some measurements taken in a home lab setup.

Introduction After (again) suffering under KMail’s recent sluggishness when dealing with my email spool and general Eclipse slowness when run with many plugins (such as the excellent Android ADT or the still-to-mature Scala plugin), I decided that the best update for my Lenovo Thinkpad X201s laptop would be a solid state disk (SSD).