WED FEB 4 2026

this day at work some more troubleshooting was dropped on my lap!

a pair of firewalls were no longer accepting new configuration changes. Looking into their health stats, it was clear something was going on with memory!
Despite being configured with the exact same settings (eg: high availability) one of the firewalls was showing 51% memory consumption, while the other was showing 95% memory consumption...

This generally shouldn't happen and can have something to do with the size of the configurations being run on the device

spent majority of the day trying to find out why this was and hwo exactly the firewall distributes memory consumption among all the different settings it can have