Re: [FW-1] IP440 sluggish performance after not being rebooted for weeks.

[BillO <wosterman1@FW1-NOSPAMCOMCAST.NET>]

I am generally a proponent of trying to figure out what is specifically
wrong before upgrading, and if I were you I would consider testing the
health of the box periodically -- memory usage, cpu utilization, interface
statistics, etc.

Barring that, I believe that ipso 3.3 was the first version where they
implemented flows.  Both the version of your firewall and the version of
IPSO have seen some pretty significant improvements since then.  Read the
release notes for the versions after 3.3 and see if anything touches upon
stuff you may be subject to.  The upgrade and bacout path is pretty easy on
those boxes.  I also believe that if you are on IPSO 3.3 you may not have to
upgrade the boot manager and that is the only real gotcha.  Be sure to back
up everything before trying the upgrade.

Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Choyna" <AChoyna@PATHF.COM>
To: <FW-1-MAILINGLIST@beethoven.us.checkpoint.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 5:19 PM
Subject: [FW-1] IP440 sluggish performance after not being rebooted for
weeks.


> We have a Nokia IP440, FW-1 4.1 SP3, ipso 3.3.
>
> I have noticed that at times our network gets slower and slower after a
period of weeks that the firewall has not been rebooted.
>
> Once l reboot the firewall, the network performance improvement is very
noticeable.
>
> Does anyone here experience the same thing?
>
> Should the firewall be restarted on a regular basis? If so, every how
often? Or maybe just kill the firewall processes, and then restart them?
Thoughts anyone...
>
> regards,
>
> Alan
>
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