[c-nsp] FWSM (3.1) - Memory and CPU issue

[Varaillon Jean Christophe]

>The CPU of context2 is never changing (stack at 62%) and this does not
>reflect at all the pattern of traffic/connection/translation that we get
>during a wotrking day. Why What would keep the CPU so busy given that the
>amount of traffic is not the issue here?

This output shows clearly that the traffic is almost null but still it has
60% of CPU.
What could justify such a value?

FWSM/context2# show cpu usage
CPU utilization for 5 seconds = 60.5%; 1 minute: 62.2%; 5 minutes: 62.4%

FWSM/context2# show perfmon
PERFMON STATS:    Current      Average
Xlates               0/s          0/s
Connections          0/s          0/s
TCP Conns            0/s          0/s
UDP Conns            0/s          0/s
URL Access           0/s          0/s
URL Server Req       0/s          0/s
TCP Fixup          279/s          0/s
HTTP Fixup           0/s          0/s
FTP Fixup            0/s          0/s
AAA Authen           0/s          0/s
AAA Author           0/s          0/s
AAA Account          0/s          0/s
TCP Intercept        0/s          0/s

Thanks,

Christophe 
 

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