PA-500 CLI and web interface unbearably slow

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PA-500 CLI and web interface unbearably slow

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"show system resources" indicates CPU is 80% idle... yet can take 90 seconds to display results.  Logging into the web interface can take 60 seconds.  Committing insignificant changes can take 5 minutes (Maybe this is excusable). These are not exaggerations.

How can I troubleshoot the source of this latency?  I'd love to hear an responses such as "you don't have logging turned on, do you?  go turn it off!" or "get used to it, we all have that problem".

I'm running 6.0.2.

Thank you,

Chris

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Hello Chris,

Could you please restart the management server daemon on this PAN FW. It seems the management-server takes a large amount of memory from it's MP. This will not impact to the production traffic on your PAN firewall.

CLI command to restart mgmt-server:   > debug software restart management-server

( after applying the above mention command, you will lose the SSH access to the fw)

Mem:    942232k total  >>>>>>> total memory available on Management-plane,   918288k used,    23944k free,


2540 root      20   0  946m >>>>>>>>>>>>>> memory used  287m 4188 S   16 31.2   1326:32 mgmtsrvr



Thanks

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L7 Applicator

Hello Chris,

Could you please apply CLI command > show system resources follow  ( press enter). After that, apply Shift +M. Capture that output and share with us. It may be web-server or management-server is taking high memory on the MP.

Thanks

I am getting the same issue on my PA-2050 using PA OS 6.0.3

top - 12:38:40 up 46 days,  4:06,  1 user,  load average: 16.20, 14.47, 9.41

Mem:    942232k total,   918288k used,    23944k free,      872k buffers

Swap:  2008084k total,  1206204k used,   801880k free,    97004k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND

2540 root      20   0  946m 287m 4188 S   16 31.2   1326:32 mgmtsrvr

2539 root      20   0  364m  89m 7904 S    0  9.7   1736:31 devsrvr

2564 root      20   0  691m  74m 1696 S    0  8.1 540:43.88 logrcvr

2523 root      20   0  195m  67m  63m S    0  7.4 537:13.90 useridd

27243 nobody    20   0  230m  30m 4320 S    0  3.3  97:26.05 appweb3

25316 root      30  10 61384  14m 5444 D    0  1.6   0:00.91 pan_logdb_index

14141 nobody    20   0  203m  14m 3296 S   65  1.6   1167:41 appweb3

2087 root       0 -20 79320 8940 2068 S    0  0.9 389:30.83 masterd_apps

2570 root      20   0  207m 5660 2332 S    0  0.6  92:02.36 sslmgr

13805 root      20   0  5376 5252 2748 S    0  0.6   0:01.56 ntpd

21338 admin     20   0  106m 4336  832 S    0  0.5   0:06.85 cli

2113 root      20   0 99.7m 4060 1280 S    0  0.4  19:28.60 dagger

2114 root      30  10 42836 3848 1740 S    0  0.4 220:48.80 python

2575 root      20   0  116m 3304 1892 S    0  0.4  87:05.35 authd

2098 root      15  -5 41332 2348 1216 S    0  0.2 723:19.93 sysd

2572 root      20   0 82668 1976 1180 S    0  0.2  31:04.69 dnsproxyd

2574 root      20   0  147m 1876 1152 S    0  0.2  34:44.52 routed

2567 root      20   0  217m 1788 1424 S    0  0.2 111:03.09 varrcvr

2121 root      20   0  137m 1712 1192 S    0  0.2  43:44.09 sysdagent

14106 nobody    20   0  104m 1664 1372 S    0  0.2  17:01.23 appweb3

2350 root      20   0 95244 1576 1208 S    0  0.2  22:37.49 cryptod

2569 root      20   0  116m 1476 1228 S    0  0.2  29:17.18 satd

2563 root      20   0 84236 1420 1228 S    0  0.2  21:56.60 ikemgr

2145 root      20   0 84956 1380 1076 S    0  0.1  30:29.08 chasd

2568 root      17  -3 66604 1376 1052 S    0  0.1  26:05.06 ha_agent

2573 root      20   0 80340 1248 1092 S    0  0.1  23:00.67 pppoed

2565 root      20   0  102m 1236 1064 S    0  0.1  23:11.16 rasmgr

5058 root      20   0 49888 1236 1032 S    0  0.1  32:18.81 snmpd

2571 root      20   0 67204 1188 1056 S    0  0.1  26:40.90 pan_dhcpd

25331 root      20   0  3828 1172 1036 D    0  0.1   0:00.23 sh

2144 root      20   0 36052 1128  972 S    0  0.1  40:15.44 ehmon

2566 root      20   0  101m 1124  992 S    0  0.1  23:35.00 keymgr

2143 root      20   0 67660 1080  948 S    0  0.1  25:17.97 brdagent

21305 root      20   0 21316 1080 1016 S    0  0.1   0:00.30 sshd

25228 admin     20   0  4528 1060  808 R   49  0.1   0:02.00 top

21780 root      30  10  3892 1052  880 S    0  0.1   0:00.79 genindex.sh

21333 admin     20   0 21452  820  640 S    0  0.1   0:00.40 sshd

5063 root      20   0  8792  788  680 S    0  0.1   0:18.63 syslog-ng

2391 root      20   0  6844  780  752 S    0  0.1   0:00.11 sshd

1912 root      20   0  2108  668  664 S    0  0.1   0:00.06 rpc.statd

2392 root      20   0  6780  668  664 S    0  0.1   0:00.05 sshd

13778 root      20   0  2896  656  596 S    0  0.1   0:00.18 crond

1874 root      20   0  2004  632  588 S    0  0.1   0:14.43 syslogd

1977 root      20   0  3276  628  624 S    0  0.1   0:00.02 xinetd

2007 root      20   0  2608  628  560 S    0  0.1   0:17.35 rpc.mountd

2142 root      20   0  7208  624  620 S    0  0.1   0:00.13 tscat

    1 root      20   0  1832  600  576 S    0  0.1   1:10.71 init

1894 rpc       20   0  2076  484  480 S    0  0.1   0:00.01 portmap

2090 root      20   0  1884  456  452 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 agetty

  867 root      16  -4  1992  384  380 S    0  0.0   0:01.06 udevd

1877 root      20   0  1888  368  364 S    0  0.0   0:00.05 klogd

1886 root      20   0  1868  328  232 S    0  0.0  13:44.25 irqbalance

5062 root      20   0  4796  212  208 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 syslog-ng

    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 kthreadd

    3 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:24.12 migration/0

    4 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   8:24.78 ksoftirqd/0

    5 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:23.39 migration/1

    6 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   8:04.71 ksoftirqd/1

Hello Chris,

Could you please restart the management server daemon on this PAN FW. It seems the management-server takes a large amount of memory from it's MP. This will not impact to the production traffic on your PAN firewall.

CLI command to restart mgmt-server:   > debug software restart management-server

( after applying the above mention command, you will lose the SSH access to the fw)

Mem:    942232k total  >>>>>>> total memory available on Management-plane,   918288k used,    23944k free,


2540 root      20   0  946m >>>>>>>>>>>>>> memory used  287m 4188 S   16 31.2   1326:32 mgmtsrvr



Thanks

Hulk,

Thank you.  I should have thought to look at mem usage after I confirmed it wasn't a CPU problem.  mgmtsrvr mem usage dropped from 1GB to 400MB.  Now I have to figure out how to setup a cron job to restart it every night (only partially joking).

Chris

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