Hey Community,
I installed OPNSense as a VM over the weekend, connecting bridge interfaces to the firewall. While OPNSense is running, I've noticed every 30-60 seconds OPNSense hangs/unresponsive for about 5-10 seconds, recovers with 100% CPU (in the VM's dashboard), then returns to normal before repeating the cycle.
I had initiated a forum post over at OPNSense and they suggested it could be Unraid's emulation of the NIC and to passthrough NIC instead. This is not ideal as I'd like to use bridge interfaces to firewall VMs and containers.
Here are some observations:
NIC is a quad port Intel Corporation 82571EB/82571GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 06)
There is no load on FW, no traffic is being sent through it
It feels like VM is waiting for CPU or IO
Threw more CPUs and RAM as well as dedicated CPUs which had no effect (AMD CPU)
Unraid host CPU does not spike, but I do see a CPU increase pattern which seems correlated with the OPNSense VM issue (Screenshot)
Configured hypervisor to use e1000 as the card is an HP/Intel chipset with no effect
Unchecked disable hardware offload options with no effect
I sifted through Unraid logs and wasn't seeing anything odd and my Google-fu has not found any similar problems either. I tend to believe it is a driver issue and wondering if anyone has any solutions?