Firewall rebooted unexpectedly with "Out of memory condition detected" in system logs

Firewall rebooted unexpectedly with "Out of memory condition detected" in system logs

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Created On 04/22/25 03:04 AM - Last Modified 06/05/25 21:10 PM


Symptom


  • Firewalls reboots with Out of Memory (OOM) messages. These can be seen in the system log (show log system)
 17:29:02 critical general                          general                   0  Out of memory condition detected, kill process 9045  <<<
 17:29:12 critical general                          general                   0  Out of memory condition detected, kill process 9057  <<<
  • The "reportd" memory usage is seen as high and keep increasing (about 8 gig). This can be seen in the CLI command "show system resources | match reportd"
PA-FW > show system resources ... 
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
....
...
6953 20 0 1287620 513204 38548 S 0.0 1.6 26:07.25 reportd >> The value of these keep increasing

 



Environment


  • Panorama 
  • Log Collector Groups
  • PAN-OS 11.1.x, 11.,2.x, 10.2.x


Cause


Software Issue.



Resolution


  1. The issue is resolved under PAN-267671.
  2. Upgrade to the fixed PAN-OS versions will resolve the issue.
  3. The fixed versions are 10.2.14, 11.1.8, 11.2.5 and other hotfix versions.


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