How to calculate the actual used MP memory
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Created On 01/14/20 23:54 PM - Last Modified 03/11/24 20:15 PM
Objective
The aim of this article is to show how to calculate the actual used management plane memory on the firewall.
Environment
- NGFW
- PAN-OS 8.1 and below
Procedure
- To view real-time memory and CPU usage, run the command:
show system resources
- To calculate the used memory:
Used Mem= (used)-(Buffers +Cached)
Sample example is provided below:
In this example we see that used memory is 3594124k.
2020-01-10 15:13:42.847 +0800 --- top_summary top - 15:13:42 up 52 days, 2:51, 0 users, load average: 0.46, 0.41, 0.45 Tasks: 114 total, 3 running, 111 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 6.4%us, 3.5%sy, 0.7%ni, 88.6%id, 0.4%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.4%si, 0.0%st Mem: 3849872k total, 3594124k used, 255748k free, 74612k buffers Swap: 3056660k total, 797204k used, 2259456k free, 1486208k cached
The Linux based system memory calculation or the actual used value can be calculated as:
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Used Mem = 3594124k used - (74612k buffers + 1486208k cached)
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Hence, for the above Firewall Used Mem = 2033304K
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From the calculation we see that the actual used memory is 2033304K .