EAP 2 - Ram Utilisation

 Dear All, 

my system has 4 GB of RAM and with EAP2, memory utilisation is 84%. 

Sophos: is this the normal or what you expect for such a system?

Thanks

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  • Memory dropped immediately to 49% then rose to 60%.

    So, no great improvement, but 10% is better then nothing.

    The load has increased slightly. So monitoring over the next couple of days.

    Ian

    XG115W - v20.0.2 MR-2 - Home

    XG on VM 8 - v21 GA

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  • I do not get why using less than 75% memory is such a problem.  

    Seriously, who cares ?

    I’m far more concerned about real life Firewall responsiveness than a race to use as least memory as possible .

    Paul Jr

  • Because spare memory is used to cache, less disk access, faster user response, less swap especially on slower machines.

    As we have seen 4gb systems were having issues so greducing memory use when you are limited to 4 or 6gb is worth the effort.

    Ian

    XG115W - v20.0.2 MR-2 - Home

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  • Big_Buck said:
    I do not get why using less than 75% memory is such a problem.  

    In my opinion, unused RAM is wasted RAM. But it's nice to see improvements on it.

    Big_Buck said:
    I’m far more concerned about real life Firewall responsiveness than a race to use as least memory as possible .

    Same thing,I believe people should be more worried about throughput and latency than RAM usage.

    I'll be waiting for v18 to be officially released in 2020, on 2018 NSS labs test the average XG latency has too high compared to others vendors.


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  • There's the whole efficiency issue, but at 25% left, XG is not yet urgently required to tighten CPU hogging memory flushing procedures.

    What I noticed with XGv17 is performance gains when increasing from 2 gig of memory to 4 gig are obvious.  But from 4 gig to 8 gig, it is unnoticeable.

    What I see is XGv17 becomes performance hit when memory utilisation is above 75%.

    Paul Jr