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mpandya
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Article Id 369751
Description This article describes how to verify the WAD process while the firewall is on conserve mode.
Scope FortiGate.
Solution

If the firewall is on conserve mode, run the following command:

 

get sys per status   <----- It can validate whether CPU or memory is high.

 

After finding its memory takes more processes, run the command below to check which process is high.

 

diagnose sys top 2 40  

 

After finding more, run the following command to check.

 

diagnose wad memory report

 

This output will be obtained:

 

******** Memory and CPU usage of wad processes ********
NAME                  PID STATE %CPU %MEM
wad-worker            2092 S 0.0 4.6   
<------ Wad workers utilize more.
wad-config-notify     2089 S 0.0 2.7
wad-algo              2090 S 0.0 1.9
wad-manager           2037 S 0.0 1.8
wad-user-info         2083 S 0.0 1.5
wad-dev-vuln          2084 S 0.0 1.5
wad-debug             2088 S 0.0 1.4
wad-user-info-history 2087 S 0.0 1.4
wad-informer          2082 S 0.0 1.4
wad-cert-inspection   2085 S 0.0 1.4
wad-yfcs              2086 S 0.0 1.4

 

For a more in-depth explanation of the WAD process and how to select an individual WAD process, refer to Technical Tip: Overview of WAD process structure.

 

To restart the wad process and release the memory used by the wad process run 'diagnose test application wad 99'

For other methods on how to restart the WAD process, refer to Technical Tip: How to restart the WAD process.

 

Related article:

Technical Tip: Reduce memory usage by reducing the number of spawned daemons