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Performance Monitor Always Orange, Y?

Big Ray

Hi,

From day one even when I was beta testing my performance monitor is always orange, Does anyone know Y? The only thing the help says is "Warning Load Average is between 2 to 5 units" What does this mean and is it normal?

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    I know this is an older thread but I figured I would post this here for anyone who has this annoying orange indicator. I just spoke with our Partner rep and had a technical engineer on the line and I asked him if there was a way of making this green or if it was a bug and he explained how this works.

    It calculates the average (the orange line) based on the usage of that day. So say you have very little usage in the morning until mid afternoon and then all your kids get home, that average is higher than the morning so you're now exceeding it. While not technically a bug he did say they have been asked and will more than likely implement a way to set your own average as they too want everything to be 'green' when there isn't a real problem.
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    I know this is an older thread but I figured I would post this here for anyone who has this annoying orange indicator. I just spoke with our Partner rep and had a technical engineer on the line and I asked him if there was a way of making this green or if it was a bug and he explained how this works.

    It calculates the average (the orange line) based on the usage of that day. So say you have very little usage in the morning until mid afternoon and then all your kids get home, that average is higher than the morning so you're now exceeding it. While not technically a bug he did say they have been asked and will more than likely implement a way to set your own average as they too want everything to be 'green' when there isn't a real problem.
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    Thanks for bringing it up with the partner but the technical engineer wasn't necessarily forth coming in his assessment. The icon will turn yellow pretty much immediately when the load average goes above a certain threshold and its not the same as average throughout the day. You can run TOP on console and can observe the high loads yourself.

    The firewall needs tuning as load averages are really high even when XG is not doing anything. XG also runs weird daemons like telnetd etc that nobody in their right mind runs on ANY firewall. Just look at the number of sleeping processes... almost twice as many as UTM and still doing less than the UTM. This bloat in the code will only get bigger when they add more stuff from the UTM to the XG.

    Resetting your own threshold is not a solution to this problem for average users. I like to know when I am redlining my engine, not raise the threshold so it doesn't look like its redlining. XG needs tuning and hopefully they will tune it before the next release... but only if they admit this is a problem and not come up with fancy excuses/fixes like moving up the threshold. Its ok for a firewall to run with yellow icon under extreme loads but that should not be the norm.