03-13-2013 09:09 AM
Recently I ordered and installed the memory upgrade for my PA-500. It was under $400, is a simple end user install and upgraded the management plane to 2gb (from 1gb).
I will not give any estimates as to improvement as I do not want to exaggerate, however, I highly recommend anyone with a PA-500 spend the $400 (ish).
Hope that helps,
Bob
03-13-2013 09:14 AM
Any chance you could compare the memory swapping before and after the upgrade ? (provided you had already tested this beforehand )
"show system resources" if I remember correctly.
03-13-2013 09:35 AM
Let me just say the difference in the console is noticeable.
Unfortunately I did not take a system resource before. Maybe you could post your stats for a comparison?
I am using 5.0.3. After the upgrade "show system resources" is as follows.
top - 09:33:36 up 1 day, 15:03, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.09, 0.14
Tasks: 102 total, 1 running, 101 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 3.4%us, 3.2%sy, 5.9%ni, 87.0%id, 0.5%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2028576k total, 2000836k used, 27740k free, 64768k buffers
Swap: 2212876k total, 924k used, 2211952k free, 887360k cached
Bob
03-13-2013 12:59 PM
Does it improve on commit times? Also does it improve the speed at which reports are generated?
03-13-2013 01:05 PM
Report generator is absolutely faster, no question. Commit times are almost certainly quicker (but I did not time them).
Bob
03-13-2013 01:24 PM
Can this be done to the 2000 series as well ?
03-13-2013 02:05 PM
Sadly no, it is only available for PA500
@BobW I'll try to get the info on one of our appliances tomorrow for comparison.
03-13-2013 03:15 PM
03-14-2013 07:45 AM
Anyone have the output of the show system resources of a standard PA-500? I would like to see the difference in memory usage.
Thanks,
Bob
03-14-2013 08:04 AM
Hello,
PA 500 with around 100 users behind it
top - 16:01:41 up 44 days, 6:37, 1 user, load average: 1.11, 0.36, 0.19
Tasks: 100 total, 2 running, 98 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 2.9%us, 2.0%sy, 4.3%ni, 90.1%id, 0.6%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 995872k total, 963276k used, 32596k free, 6576k buffers
Swap: 2212876k total, 477108k used, 1735768k free, 206268k cached
As I can see from your output, in your device, the swap area is not used.
Do you see any difference when you commit (time, etc) ?
Regards,
HA
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