I believe you are seeing the memory utilization for the Control Plane and not the Data Plane. They are completely separate and the Control Plane CPU and Memory has nothing to do with sessions or traffic through the box. It is only concerned with the Web GUI, CLI, routing protocol daemons, logging, reporting, and other administrative tasks. To see the resource utilization for the Data Plane use the following commands: PANOS 3.1: show running resource-monitor PANOS 3.0 and below: debug dataplane show resource-monitor The show system resources command will show you the memory and CPU utilization of the Control Plane, as does the GUI widget on the dashboard. Cheers, Kelly
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