Monday, November 8, 2010

Troubleshooting High CPU on Cisco ASA

show cpu
show processes cpu-usage

**This will tell us which process is consuming the most CPU.

**Dispatch Unit is the "packet processing" process of the ASA. If the Dispatch Unit is showing high utilization, take a packet capture (pcap) from the ASA and view it in Wireshark to see what traffic is causing the most load on the ASA.

Enable CPU Profiling (to provide to Cisco TAC)
cpu profile activate 5000

Cisco ASA 8.2+:
show cpu profile dump

Pre 8.2:
show cpu profile

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