topic Re: CoreXl tuning in General Topics https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/CoreXl-tuning/m-p/12620#M2052 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>so " sim affinity -a " will be the best option at the moment</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 05 Dec 2018 08:04:22 GMT Marco_Valenti 2018-12-05T08:04:22Z CoreXl tuning https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/CoreXl-tuning/m-p/12617#M2049 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hey expert</P><P></P><P>I have a doubt about splitting corexl between fw worker and snd/irq cores.</P><P>Before starting tuning I have a situation like that , 32 virtual core (ht enabled) 28 fwworker 4snd/irq , since we are going to use only one bond of two 10gb interfaces I was thinking to increment snd/irq core to 6 going 26 fw worker.</P><P>My question is do I need to use sim affinity -s and assign the new snd/irq cores to the interfaces used for the bond interface&nbsp; or since all other interfaces are down this configuration is not needed and sim affinity -a is enough?</P><P></P><P>Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 04 Dec 2018 08:21:29 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/CoreXl-tuning/m-p/12617#M2049 Marco_Valenti 2018-12-04T08:21:29Z Re: CoreXl tuning https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/CoreXl-tuning/m-p/12618#M2050 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>bump <IMG src="https://community.checkpoint.com/legacyfs/online/checkpoint/emoticons/grin.png" /></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:51:12 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/CoreXl-tuning/m-p/12618#M2050 Marco_Valenti 2018-12-04T14:51:12Z Re: CoreXl tuning https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/CoreXl-tuning/m-p/12619#M2051 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I tend to stick with defaults until they don't work.</P><P>But if you're concerned, you might as well double-check the affinity.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 05 Dec 2018 03:00:13 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/CoreXl-tuning/m-p/12619#M2051 PhoneBoy 2018-12-05T03:00:13Z Re: CoreXl tuning https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/CoreXl-tuning/m-p/12620#M2052 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>so " sim affinity -a " will be the best option at the moment</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 05 Dec 2018 08:04:22 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/CoreXl-tuning/m-p/12620#M2052 Marco_Valenti 2018-12-05T08:04:22Z Re: CoreXl tuning https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/CoreXl-tuning/m-p/12621#M2053 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Automatic interface affinity (sim affinity -a) is the default.&nbsp; With 2 10gig interfaces a starting split of 6/24 is quite reasonable; if there is a large amount of fully-accelerated traffic you might need more SNDs than that.&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>If there will only be two main interfaces used and they will handle almost all the traffic, Multi-Queue might be prudent as well depending on network traffic load and the burstiness level of network traffic.</P><P></P><P>--<BR /> Second Edition of my "Max Power" Firewall Book<BR /> Now Available at <A href="http://www.maxpowerfirewalls.com" target="_blank">http://www.maxpowerfirewalls.com</A></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:39:53 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/CoreXl-tuning/m-p/12621#M2053 Timothy_Hall 2018-12-05T13:39:53Z Re: CoreXl tuning https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/CoreXl-tuning/m-p/12622#M2054 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks for the reply Tim , so basically I can leave the other interface in shut and there are no need so assign the other snd/irq core to the 2 gb interface with sim affinity -s command</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 05 Dec 2018 17:19:00 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/CoreXl-tuning/m-p/12622#M2054 Marco_Valenti 2018-12-05T17:19:00Z Re: CoreXl tuning https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/CoreXl-tuning/m-p/12623#M2055 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>No just let automatic interface affinity handle it and enable Multi-Queue.</P><P></P><P>--<BR /> Second Edition of my "Max Power" Firewall Book<BR /> Now Available at <A class="" href="http://www.maxpowerfirewalls.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.maxpowerfirewalls.com</A></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 05 Dec 2018 17:27:21 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/CoreXl-tuning/m-p/12623#M2055 Timothy_Hall 2018-12-05T17:27:21Z