topic IPS Processor Utilization in Network Security https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/ips-processor-utilization/m-p/1948765#M55251 <P> Hello All,</P><P> My name is Michael,&nbsp; I work with a multinational company..&nbsp; Rescently, my company bought an IPS 4270 running IOS version 7.0 and it was my project to set it up.. I configured the IPS in promiscous mode. it has started monitoring my traffic, But the one issue I have is that one out of the four CPUs always clock up to 100%, and one is always 5%, whhile the other two are like 60% each... I was thinking the memory utilization should be spread out accross&nbsp; the four processors and not one of them over utuilized while others are under utilized...&nbsp; Any idea of what to do...</P><P></P><P>Abuchi</P> Sun, 10 Mar 2019 12:40:50 GMT mmaduabuchi.nwokolo 2019-03-10T12:40:50Z IPS Processor Utilization https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/ips-processor-utilization/m-p/1948765#M55251 <P> Hello All,</P><P> My name is Michael,&nbsp; I work with a multinational company..&nbsp; Rescently, my company bought an IPS 4270 running IOS version 7.0 and it was my project to set it up.. I configured the IPS in promiscous mode. it has started monitoring my traffic, But the one issue I have is that one out of the four CPUs always clock up to 100%, and one is always 5%, whhile the other two are like 60% each... I was thinking the memory utilization should be spread out accross&nbsp; the four processors and not one of them over utuilized while others are under utilized...&nbsp; Any idea of what to do...</P><P></P><P>Abuchi</P> Sun, 10 Mar 2019 12:40:50 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/ips-processor-utilization/m-p/1948765#M55251 mmaduabuchi.nwokolo 2019-03-10T12:40:50Z IPS Processor Utilization https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/ips-processor-utilization/m-p/1948766#M55252 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Michael,</P><P></P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; CPU statistics are not true indication of the load on the sensor.&nbsp; The Inspection Load Percentage in the output of 'show inspection-load' should be used instead.</P><P></P><P>thanks</P><P>Madhu</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 16 May 2012 17:52:01 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/ips-processor-utilization/m-p/1948766#M55252 mkodali 2012-05-16T17:52:01Z