Behavior of RT-N16 under load

Question

linux

There is an Asus RT-N16 router with firmware from enthusiasts of one of the latest versions. I sat poking around in the contents of the working firmware (/proc), decided to look into the load graphs, because uptime and /proc/loadavg show zeros. And there is such a picture:


On the chart, the moment of the start of the torrent download is captured (specially set, see). As you can see, the traffic graph for some reason jumps (and correlates with the load on the CPU) despite the more or less stable speed. Readings are taken once per second. Can someone explain why the hell the router behaves like this? Within one second, there is a load on the channel, and the next "rest". What for? Why?

Answer 1

You should ask this question on the forum of the creators .

Answer 2

With official firmware, with nas and PC connected via lan and a couple of three devices via vlan, everything is fine, it works stably.
On the topic, I think that either the firmware is a curve or the router itself is incorrectly configured

Answer 3

Olegovsky chtol?
In general, on the topic - perhaps there is an overclocking percentage of a poor router. It was underclocked for a reason - there are rumors that defective silicon is often found there, which is why all sorts of artifacts are possible.