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First off -- I'm not a newb, but I am only a dabbler. If you point me in the right direction, I can generally figure it out (often with lots of wasted time). I'm running pfSense as a VM on Unraid (latest stable versions). I know, "don't vitualize your infrastucture!", but that's what I want for my home-lab. One box to grab from a fire/tornado/hurricane, or temporarily relocate during a power/internet outage. I'm using OpenVPN on my "Deluge with VPN" docker to get to my NordVPN account for all my -arr stuff. I'm using OpenVPN on pfSense which works great for remote access to everything Unraid. I'm getting that "It ain't broke, but I wanna fix it anyway" sense that Wireguard (with remotes managed by Tailscale?) would be more efficient throughout? My main question is -- where would I want to put Wireguard/Tailscale, pfSense or Unraid? Both? I hear NordVPN supports Wireguard through "NordLynx", but does it? On both pfSense and Unraid? I really only need the VPN for my -arr stuff (which is low-priority) and could leave it on the Deluge-OpenVPN-NordVPN connection (which doesn't support Wireguard) except I think maybe there's a significant overhead penalty? I think what I want is pfSense to manage two wireguard tunnels, one through NordLynx (for VPN/arr stuff), and one using Tailscale for remote access to Unraid dockers/VMs? But maybe it would be better for Unraid to manage the arr stuff and pfSense to manage the remote acess? OpenVPN for everything has been fairly easy and just works... do I even want to invest the time in learning wireguard (Tailscale)? Thanks for reading all this, and do you have any suggestions? Maybe a thread already here I missed? ¡Gracias!

I think I found a work-around... I "isolated" one primary core and "pinned" it and the corresponding secondary core to the pfSense VM. Now the "usage" on both dashboards seems very similar.

.8 fixed it, thanks!

No ZFS here, but I am on 2.10.9.7, I'll try again when I see .8 Thanks!

I've used DiskSpeed successfully in the past with a mix of mechanical and NVME drives (Thanks!), but recently got an SSD and wanted to see how it compares. Now when I launch DiskSpeed it gets stuck in a disk scanning loop. It scans normally and says it saved the configuration, but when I hit "continue" it throws an error "The saved configuration file was invalid" and scans again... ad nauseum. I tried deleting the docker, removing the orphan docker image, re-installing the docker... same issue. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Nope. I just gave it the other core of the pair so it doesn't look "starved" on the usage graph, With two cores it barely ever gets above 5% usage. It's a waste, but makes me feel less angst.

Every one I ran went without a hitch. I always follow the spaceinvader one videos on youtube. After you get it running you need to add the virtio guest services to get hibernate support, otherwise the VM can cause unraid shutdown hiccups when Windows wants an update.

I've been using this guy since April on my ASUS Prime Z590-P LGA 1200: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09K4WZ9B1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 No issues at all running several mechanical hard drives and an optical drive. It claims to use an ASM 1166 chip. I dunno if the thing is "splitting" chip ports between connectors, but I'm getting full-tilt-boogie even when I fully populate the thing. $10/port and it just works...

I've "isolated" and "pinned" one core of my 16 core intel CPU for pfSense, and it seems to be working flawlessly except for a perhaps cosmetic defect? Nothing else is isolated or pinned. The CPU usage on the pfSense dashboard is always in the range 1-16%, but the CPU usage for that one core running the VM on the unraid dashboard is usually in the range 10-60%, sometimes peaking to 100% for a few seconds. I'm wondering why the big discrepancy? I understand they're measuring different things in different ways, but why to that large an effect? The highest usage (100%) seems to coincide with my GPU doing transcodes for Jellyfin or tdarr, but not always -- and neither of those are using much internet bandwidth so that seems weird too. Any ideas? Should I even care?

YES!!! Please?