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Hi.
We have had the appliance for a few weeks.
In the past 5 days our notification logs show 3 "unexpected reboot" notices. We have had no power or other issues in our site. How can we get more information to find the cause of these reboots? We have found nothing in the logs. Do logs survive a reboot?
Firmaware version is R80.20 (992000668)
Thanks.
We have 15 days up with R80.20.02.
Probably solved.
TAC never answered.... Ticket still open...
Magic!
They answered 2 seconds ago with the solution I was offered here 2 weeks ago.
Reminds me of the "good" old days when my 1470 had similar issues.
If this was happening nowadays I would be long dead killed by our employees working from home... 😁
Mind posting a vmcore? Last messages I was seeing was out of memory and killing random procs until kernel panic. I didn't report this because i do unthinkable things with my 1550 and didn't want to wast someone's time with something that could be related to something unsupported.
John, may you please paste output of following command on your 1550:
# sysctl -a | grep panic_on_oom
[Expert@fw]# sysctl vm.panic_on_oom
vm.panic_on_oom = 0
[Expert@fw]#
Looks like that doesn't mean take a dump, it means start killing ramdon process to try to free memory.
If I had to guess I'd say the kernel panic was no free kernel memory.
The last few kernel panics I had seemed to happen at strange times. Like midnight or something. I'm wondering if its a bug up with sig updates somehow.
Definitely case for R&D to investigate. Although, my experience is that it can be a hardware issue (corrupt mem) as well.
I wonder why is kernel not set to panic on OOM on some systems. Like when OOM killer is invoked system will be left in stable state. No way! Reboot to be good...
You say that like there has never been a case of sfwd eating all memory.
SFWD is just jelly of CPD and FWD.
SFWD has always been limited by fw_sfwd_max_rss_enforce to I think 300MB.
yeah, i have a customer that rolled out 1200Rs when they came out. That for sure didn't exist back then... i'm pretty sure.. Then again that was old R75 days.
Most of our unexpected reboots happened at midnight GMT
I just pushed 135 gig through mine without issue (replicating my lab ISO folder). Granted this was a rsync and not say a http which might have more inspect bits hitting it.
Hi All,
How is the latest Gaia OS working out for the 1500 are you still seeing random reboots?
Anyone up over 30 days without reboot?
For us it has been 60 days without reboots.
Very normal loads, except for the eventual operating system update in the LAN.
We have 600meg fiber in both directions and get the full throughput.
Can you tell what was the OS load average right before it rebooted ? Was it HTTP or HTTPS traffic and have you tried to disable HTTPS Inspection to see if it makes any difference ?
We use 1590 and also suffer the same these days.
After we upgrade to Version: R80.20.05 (992001169)
The system is up for 6 days now.
Anyway, we are quite disappointed with this.
1550 here, the appliance keeps rebooting, already in the 3rd firmware, the latest one R80.20.05 (992001179) i was hoping it was stable but after 4 days it rebooted again unexpectedly and started rebooting minute after minute till i had to turn it off and on again.
I already tried to turn off ssl inspection and anti spam to test if the cause is from high load but the problem persists. The internet connection is a 100/100mbps and the company has like 10 people, half of them working from home due to covid so this is the worst time to happen, it's frustrating.
I'm really disappointed with this 1500 series, the first post regarding this issue is from January and there is no sign of a resolution. I have 2 more appliances to install in another customer and i'm already afraid that this will happen and have another headache with the customer complaining every day.
Tagging @Amir_Ayalon
thanks for tagging,
we are already in contact with the customer.
we will update once we get to the bottom of it.
thanks
Until now at my office we have the same unexpected reboots, any fix @Amir_Ayalon ??
We have a 1550 R80.20.05 build 992001169
Best regards
Hi
thanks again for raising this issue
we have several fixes over 1169, and in addition, we have identified an issue with memory utilization during signature updates, that may cause the issue. image including this fix, will be release as HF toward the end of next week.
if you would like to use it before official release, you are welcome.
if you will encounter any issue, we would love to hear.
ftp://rndftp:QJxkj1Vf@ftp.checkpoint.com/outgoing/Zachis/EA/Firmware/fw1_vx_dep_R80_992001229_20.img
thanks
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