topic Re: Checkpoint 1450 high memory utilization in Spark Firewall (SMB)

Checkpoint 1450 high memory utilization

Arturxr — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 09:30:01 GMT

There is a high load of RAM on Check Point 1450, Version (Firmware): R77.20.75 running in monitor mode only: one of the ports is mirroring traffic from a segment with 6 - 7 devices. Activated: Intrusion Prevention (IPS), Anti-Virus, Anti-Bot.

[Expert@]# free
                         total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:      1031272       970628        60644            0            0
Swap:            0            0            0
Total:      1031272       970628        60644

Re: Checkpoint 1450 high memory utilization

G_W_Albrecht — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 11:23:41 GMT

I would suggest to install fw1_sx_dep_R77_990172913_20 or fw1_sx_dep_R77_990173120_20 as your firmware version is from February 2018 ! I also would suggest a reboot...

Re: Checkpoint 1450 high memory utilization

Chris_Atkinson — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 13:35:36 GMT

There are definitely newer builds that I would suggest here R77.20.87 JHF refer sk153433.

Alternatively you have the following image as referenced in sk176148.

https://downloads.checkpoint.com/fileserver/ID/122964/FILE/fw1_sx_dep_R77_990173127_20.img

Re: Checkpoint 1450 high memory utilization

Arturxr — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 09:19:37 GMT

we installed Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator for R77.20.87 Build 990173120 but unfortunately our problem is still relevant, tell me what else can be done?

Re: Checkpoint 1450 high memory utilization

G_W_Albrecht — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 10:00:14 GMT

What is the impact of the high memory ?

Re: Checkpoint 1450 high memory utilization

Chris_Atkinson — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 11:45:04 GMT

Contact TAC to diagnose if there is a software defect.

If the issue is otherwise a capacity / resource issue you might need to explore upgrading the unit to newer hardware that will run R81+.