asa high cpu

[Kashish_Patel]

I am seeing high cpu utilization on 5520.

Any pointers on how to troubleshoot?

fw# sh processes cpu-usage sorted non-zero

PC         Thread       5Sec     1Min     5Min   Process

0x081e1e11   0x6ddc1528   70.6%   66.5%   66.0%   Dispatch Unit

0x08ed170c   0x6ddb9b48     1.6%     1.7%     1.8%   Logger

0x08dd5f2c   0x6ddafee0     1.5%     1.5%     1.5%   SNMP Notify Thread

0x08e8d045   0x6dd99348     0.1%     0.1%     0.1%   ssh

[Harish Balakrishnan]

Hello Kashish,

Can you check how many connections and translations are there in ASA

show conn count

show xlate count

also try to do a clear conn and clear xlate and see whether the CPU is coming down

regards

Harish.

[Harish Balakrishnan]

also, since this process is directly attached with the packet inspection and forwarding, could you let me know

show service-policy and what is the  bandwidth utilized towards outside. just make sure that we are not overutilizing the box

regards

Harish.