I was using wireguard-go on FreeBSD jail running on top of an APU2C2 board. Torrenting from my laptop caused wireguard-go cpu usage to spike to high loads and 30-50% CPU usage. Loading wireguard-kmod on the host machine plus some devfs rules dropped the CPU load to 0s.
Not sure what happened there. The processor seems to score less than an RPi4 on Geekbench.
I use one of these as a firewall (running OPNSense) and they're very nice but the CPU is indeed _slow_. It's plenty good enough for everything the firewall does but booting it up takes minutes and that's saying something for FreeBSD.
Odd. I run openbsd on a similar one, and booting is reasonably fast. I even have a linux vm running on it in vmd, and haven’t noticed performance issues with that either.
> The processor seems to score less than an RPi4 on Geekbench.
The apu2 is an embedded AMD quad core 1GHz SoC consuming 5W. It is not a powerful system by any means and not surprised rivaled by a >1GHz quad core Arm.
The AMD Jaguar cores came out in 2013. On the other hand, the Cortex A53 came out in 2012 so it's still a bit embarrassing for AMD. That was before the AMD renaissance, though.
The Raspberry Pi 4 uses a quad core cluster of Cortex A72 cores, not A53. A72 was released in 2016, but the Pi 4 also has them clocked to run at 1.5GHz. Either way, I don't think it's embarrassing for AMD's 2013 Jaguar to be beaten by cores that are 3 years newer and running at a 50% higher clock speed. I thought Jaguar was pretty cool at the time that it came out, but technology has continued to move swiftly since then.
Not sure what happened there. The processor seems to score less than an RPi4 on Geekbench.