8.0.2 Management SLOW, SLOW, SLOW on PA500

[ppeters86]

Has anyone else noticed that the management functions through the web interface are incredibly slow with 8.0.2?  Committing even a simple change brought these timings:

- 1:10 just to get the progress bar beyond zero

- 3:42 to complete the commit.

Seems awfully slow....

[BPry]

When was this actually updated, within the first 24 hours the system is known to run much slower. I haven't used the PA500 series but I don't recall it being a particularly fast device to being with  right? 

[Raido]

8.0.x is not yet suggested on PA200 and PA500.

Probably it needs some more resource tuning and code cleanup.

[TranceforLife]

Still, it takes quite too long to commit l think, even for PA500 series. Do you know what is "eating" your MP CPU, which process? 

>  show system resources follow

Did you try to restart a mgmt process?

> debug software restart process management-server

[vsys_remo]

@Raido
What do you mean with "not yet suggested"? Is this an official statement of PAN? Do you know about more problems than a slow mgmt?
I noticed that it is slower than before on a PA200, but everything else runs perfectly till now...

[Raido]

No it is not official statement but came up in chat with TAC person.

Check if it is newer 500 with more ram.

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Management-Articles/PA-500-MP-Memory-Upgrade/ta-p/54483

[BPry]

@vsys_remo,

Slow management and you're more likely to have a process hang. It isn't that it isn't usable but the earlier versions of the 500 and the 200 simply don't have the resources to keep up with everything. I was actually suprised to see the earlier version of the 500 remain supported. 

[ppeters86]

The poor performance was more than 24 hours after the upgrade.  It's pretty consistently slow on the management side.  The device seems to be keeping up with moving traffic.

[ppeters86]

Interesting that it's not suggested.  The device certainly offered the upgrade to me.  Odd that the device offered an upgrade that's not fully "cooked" for this platform.

[ppeters86]

I looked at system resources (show system resources follow).  I'm not seeing huge CPU utilization (load average often less than 2).

I restarted the mgmt process last week.  I don't think this made any noticable difference.

BTW, I have the 2 GB RAM model of the PA-500.