topic Re: Can core affinity be defined for fw_workers manually ? in Firewall and Security Management

Can core affinity be defined for fw_workers manually ?

Vivek_Singh1 — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 02:28:20 GMT

Can core affinity be defined for fw_workers manually ?

Hi Team,

Please excuse me if this question has already been posted in some other thread, I would like to know if there is any way to tweak the CPU core affinity settings for the fw_workers manually and not using dynamic dispatcher.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Can core affinity be defined for fw_workers manually ?

PhoneBoy — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 03:33:41 GMT

I believe this was covered as part of Timothy Hall‌'s recent TechTalk: TechTalk: Security Gateway Performance Optimization with Tim Hall‌

Re: Can core affinity be defined for fw_workers manually ?

Vivek_Singh1 — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:20:00 GMT

Hi PhoneBoy,

Thank you for your response, however, I cannot find any way to assign cores to fw_workers in Tim slide.

Re: Can core affinity be defined for fw_workers manually ?

PhoneBoy — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 19:00:04 GMT

You can change the mix of SND/fw_workers using cpconfig.

You can use fw ctl affinity to change the distribution of these cores as needed.

See Best Practices - Security Gateway Performance