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Upgraded ASA 5520 from 8.0.3 to 8.0.4.48 and memory up quite a bit

whiteford
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Level 1

Hello,

I have upgraded our 2 ASA firewalls (Active/Standby) from 8.0.3 to 8.0.4.48 and the memory has gone from 280mb to 450mb, the ASA's have 512mb.

Is this normal/ok?

I will call Cisco TAC on Monday, but seems quite a jump to me, I'm wondering if it has turned something on I don't need, not sure how I can check.

Thanks

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plumbis
Level 7
Level 7

This is expected due to new features. I would suggest disabling threat-detection to free up some memory. As long as you aren't seeing a steady increase in memory I wouldn't sweat it.

How do I disable threat-detection?

to see what threat-detection features are enabled issue the command "show run threat-detection"

to disable those features use the "no" keyword before them.

For example

===========================

ciscoasa# sh run threat-detection

threat-detection basic-threat

threat-detection statistics access-list

ciscoasa# conf t

ciscoasa(config)# no threat-detection basic-threat

ciscoasa(config)# no threat-detection statistics access-list

===========================

Thanks,

I tried that but made no difference to the amount of memory being used, how can I show what is taking it all up?

You can try show proc mem.

HTH,

jerry

This is what it shows:

The top two offenders are tmatch compile and dispatch unit. tmatch compile is related to ACLs and dispatch unit related to traffic.

How big are your access lists? (show access-list | i elements)

What is the platform?

How much traffic is going through this box?

Are there drops, errors, overruns or underruns on the interfaces?

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