ASL v8.2xx(and i am guessing all following) are HIGHLY cpu core bound.What i ahve been observing i the more cores i throw at asl the better it runs. I've actually REDUCED the mhz i'm giving to each core in favor of more cores. I now have 4 vcpu's on my asg in my hyper-v setup with 25% reserved cpu and max at 50% cpu. I ahve a quad core 2.4 ghz xeon cpu. I first replicated my single core setup and things were as i noted in my first 8.202 experience thread. It works..but not as well. Once i went to 2 vcpus I noticed a large jump in performance. I tested that for a couple of days. I just this morning put in 4 vcpu's with a 25% reservation and a 50% max usage. The thing is flat flying. 2 gigs of ram btw. I AM using the ram http database and my vm.swappiness=0 tweak...i am NOT using any other tweaks. The firewall is now able to process things faster than my phenom quad can take it in... I've hit the system with my quad and my wife's core i3 loading 20 tabs at the same time(40 tabs total)...firewall only used 50% of it's cpu allocation. This is with ips in full swing as well. It appears dual core is the absolute minimum(about 2.0 ghz) with quad at 1.6 ghz being preferred. Minimum ram as far as i am concerned is now 2 gigs with 4 being the recommended amount which mandates 64 bit only. My new reccomendations for ASL are:
dual core at 2 ghz or quad at 1.6 ghz
2 gigs ram minimum with 4 gigs recommended
These go whether you are running physical or virtual as i have been testing both and if properly setup you can't tell the virtual from the physical.
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