https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/general-topics/pa-500-very-slow-boot-speed/m-p/286518#M76604 Over it's lifetime the device will gather lots of logs and configuration items After a (major) upgrade, the log databases need to be upgraded (so all the logs need to be rewritten to a new database format) and certain config items need to be converted. The PA-500 is a fairly old platform (10+ years old), so may need a little more time to complete these updates/conversions compared to new platforms Wed, 04 Sep 2019 11:22:54 GMT reaper 2019-09-04T11:22:54Z https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/general-topics/pa-500-very-slow-boot-speed/m-p/286475#M76600 <P>I rebooted to upgrade my OS</P><P>But it took 2-3 hours to boot up.</P><P>It took nearly 2 hours for auto-commit to complete.</P><P>After a factory reset, it recovered normally, but I wonder why it's so slow.</P><P>Someone please give me an answer.</P><P>Also, is the only solution a factory reset?</P> Wed, 04 Sep 2019 07:20:07 GMT https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/general-topics/pa-500-very-slow-boot-speed/m-p/286475#M76600 Hyeon 2019-09-04T07:20:07Z https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/general-topics/pa-500-very-slow-boot-speed/m-p/286518#M76604 Over it's lifetime the device will gather lots of logs and configuration items After a (major) upgrade, the log databases need to be upgraded (so all the logs need to be rewritten to a new database format) and certain config items need to be converted. The PA-500 is a fairly old platform (10+ years old), so may need a little more time to complete these updates/conversions compared to new platforms Wed, 04 Sep 2019 11:22:54 GMT https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/general-topics/pa-500-very-slow-boot-speed/m-p/286518#M76604 reaper 2019-09-04T11:22:54Z