We had a similar issue which turned out to be the FW log.
We now perform an automatic fw logswitch every three days and this has
solved the issue with us.
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Coates [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: a eaie 05 2000 15:53
> To: Paul Hansson
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: [FW1] Performance on NT
>
>
> Sounds like a memory leak. Run perfmon.exe for a few days and watch the
> memory and CPU to see if usage steadily climbs. Just before it crashes you
> should be able to identify the culprit in the task monitor.
>
> If it's not obvious, you can also schedule a reboot every other day with
> an AT script. Rainwall S-1 would prevent that reboot from disrupting any
> traffic sessions.
>
> HTH,
> Jack Coates, Rainfinity SE
> t: 650-962-5301 m: 650-280-4376
>
>
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Paul Hansson wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > We have been suffering from a strange complaint on our FW-1 system for
> some
> > time now and I wonder if any of you out there have the same or similar
> > problem, or even if you have managed to fix the problem.
> >
> > Our system is Firewall-1 v4.0 Build 4055 running on NT4-sp5. Prior to
> this
> > we were running various builds of 3.0b on NT4 with various service
> packs.
> > The hardware has always been a Digital 3200R server, Pentium II 266,
> 256MB
> > RAM.
> >
> > We have three interfaces. The internet, our DMZ and our internal
> network. We
> > are using NAT to map between our public address space and the systems on
> the
> > DMZ and internal networks. We also have a VPN in place to two sites
> using
> > FWZ encryption.
> >
> > Over a period of time the response of the system will get slower and
> slower
> > until we reach a point when it becomes unusable and we need to reboot
> the
> > firewall box. After the reboot performance is fine. We must reboot the
> > system, restarting the Firewall services does not solve the problem.
> >
> > This period of time varies greatly. Sometimes it will be two weeks
> between
> > reboots, other times it may be that we need to reboot the system twice a
> > day. Five to seven days of uptime seems to be the average.
> >
> > We have followed the information on the Checkpoint web-site regarding
> > tuning, but this does not seem to have solved this problem. Upgrading
> > through various releases of FW-1 and NT service packs also does not seem
> to
> > solve the problem. So far, various tech. support staff have been unable
> to
> > assist us.
> >
> > Has anybody got any ideas?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Paul
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Paul Hansson
> > Manager, IT
> > Kockums Computer Systems (UK) Ltd
> > Centre for Advanced Industry, Coble Dene, Royal Quays,
> > North Shields, Tyne & Wear NE29 6DE, UK
> > Tel: +44 191 201 0000, Fax: +44 191 201 0001
> > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Web: www.tribon.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
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