Re: High CPU usage after upgrading from Debian 7 to Debian 9

On 15.04.19 11:05, Алексей wrote:
>I have two Debian boxes acting as a routesr (+iptables +quagga(BGP)). I have updated one from Debian 7 to Debian 9 recently and now experience 2x CPU utilization on the same amounts of traffic, e.g. on normal load of 1Gbps (real-world traffic) Debian 7 had 5-6% and Debian 9 has 10-12% softirq CPU time. This behaviour can also be observed during tests - 6Gbps iperf gets 3% on Debian 7 and 6% on Debian 9.
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>I compared ethtool -k outputs on both boxes and they are pretty similar. Syslog doesn't show anything suspicious.
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>Did anyone have the similar issue? Or can give me some advice on troubleshooting?

we have noticed something similar due to the spectre/meltdown updates.
Turning off HT cpus did help much.
not installing the CPU microcode should help too.