ASA 5550 utilisation

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Guys,

I am having a 5550 firewall in my network, even though they are no complains about it's performance from users, I can see the CPU utilisation is going steadily higher and higher this year. During a business day it's always somewhere between 30-50%, rarely goes below/above. The only process responsible for it is Dispatch Unit, the rest is at 0.0%. I have collected some statistics from interfaces (I have a module with extra 4 Gigabits) but I am not too sure how can I exactly see if my firewall is creating a bottleneck? Any tips on that would be great.

Thanks

[Panos Kampanakis]

I would suggest the guide we wrote https://supportforums.cisco.com/docs/DOC-12439 that will help you identify if you oversubscribe your ASA.

I hope it helps.

PK