topic Re: Memory Issues over a 6600 appliance R81 in Firewall and Security Management

Memory Issues over a 6600 appliance R81

ArathCG — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 17:17:11 GMT

Hi guys!

I am working on a security gateway, to be specific about a 6600.

The detail is that for ten days it has had an increase in use of the ram memory, it has not presented operating problems so I am concerned to know that it may arrive to collapse.

Re: Memory Issues over a 6600 appliance R81

Bob_Zimmerman — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 19:14:01 GMT

To answer usefully, we would need to know exactly what property you are monitoring. Check Point firewalls are just Linux servers, and Linux has several different ways to report memory usage, and each of them count different things as "free" and "used".

Re: Memory Issues over a 6600 appliance R81

ArathCG — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 20:27:16 GMT

This is the output of the 6600

Re: Memory Issues over a 6600 appliance R81

Chris_Atkinson — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 00:48:08 GMT

What software version and JHF level?

Note the 6600 series can have up to 32G RAM installed.

Recommend troubleshooting with TAC and depending upon the outcome consider upgrading the amount of installed RAM to either 16G or 32G.

Re: Memory Issues over a 6600 appliance R81

ArathCG — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 01:58:15 GMT

The Appliance Run R81 and its over the newest JHF

Re: Memory Issues over a 6600 appliance R81

the_rock — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 12:35:10 GMT

Can you send the output of ps -auxw command, as that would show us which process(es) would be consuming higher amount or memory.

Andy