Sophos Firewall: v19.5 EAP1: Feedback and experiences

Just deployed this FW.

Hi Peter-Paul,

what of the new features can you see and use in your installation and how much additional memory has it used?
ian 

the reason I ask is because as far as I can see very few if any of the new features add any functionality to none xgs customers.

On the 19.0.1-MR1 memory was sitting aroud 75%, the last 24h it averaged aroud 78% but has been climbing today to 87%. I will keep monitoring this.

I don't own a XGS and don't use HA, i have two WAN links and have these optimised  (SD-WAN profile) as failover for specified services/users.
I do appreciate the QoL Enhancement regarding searching for host and service objects.

Finally: i am using the home edition, want to help the community by adopting new versions and contribute as much as i can.

On the 19.0.1-MR1 memory was sitting aroud 75%, the last 24h it averaged aroud 78% but has been climbing today to 87%. I will keep monitoring this.

I don't own a XGS and don't use HA, i have two WAN links and have these optimised  (SD-WAN profile) as failover for specified services/users.
I do appreciate the QoL Enhancement regarding searching for host and service objects.

Finally: i am using the home edition, want to help the community by adopting new versions and contribute as much as i can.

Thank you for the update. I am aware that you are a home user and contribute with testing. I am interested in memory because my 4gb XG115w has a very high memory use and wondering if the EAP will break it. The memory use cycles between 73% and 83%.

Ian

Just for some insights: Memory consumption is not as bad as it looks like. So a (linux based) system can run with something like 95% used memory without any problem. If there is a "mem leak" (means the memory increases overtime until all memory is consumed), you need to take action. But looking at a "stable amount of memory", is looking fine to me. The system performs not better or worse if you have 75 or 85% memory consumption. 

Thank you, I am aware of that memory function, I am more concerned if the requirement goes over 100% and swapping starts.

As it is now I get services stopping then starting two or three days later for no reason that I can see or is logged.

Ian

Hello,

I had a total device crash a few weeks ago, and I noticed that its memory utilization has reached 96%.

since i updated to 19GA version, I've had this kind of problem with memory, it doesn't reduce consumption.

I'm currently on version SFOs 19.0.1 MR-1-Build365 and I'm still having issues.

This is a V19.5 EAP Thread. So it could not be related. Please follow with Sophos Support on such version issues. 

ok, thanks.

When i migrated to EAP19.5 my system stable at around 75% memory consumtion. Since then it has slowly increased, today it sits around 93/94%.

Would this qualify as a "mem leak"?

[Edited: Corrected 95% to 75%]

You said after migration it was at 95%, but now it's at 93/94%. Does it mean memory usage actually decreased during this time after upgrade?  

Sorry about that, meant to say 75%.

Just adjusted this.

Is it possible for you to open a support access tunnel, so Engineering can take a look at your device to see what's using memory? 

You can PM me the support access ID. 

I presume this is a Home installation?