Table fwx_backw: memory leak? inconsistent release?

[Greg Polanski <greg_polanski () adc com>]

I am successfully using Rainwall 1.3, build 38 on Solaris 2.7
and Checkpoint FW1 4.1, SP2.   Because of VPN, I am using
Gateway Clusters of two E420R gateway nodes.

The table, fwx_backw, seems to keep adding entries,
but deleting only some of them.  Notice that the numbers are
comparable when the gateways are started.  Later on Sunday morning
when traffic is very very light, the first two tables have 
shrunken, but fwx_backw has 50,000 entries !!

On Monday, the normal workload pushes the #VALS to nearly 100,000
which is solved by rebooting again.

Has anyone seen this behaviour?  Do you have any suggestions?
Should I be looking at another table entry for better information?
Also, what does fwx_backw really mean?



greg


 
fw tab -t connections -s ; fw tab -t fwx_forw -s ; fw tab -t fwx_backw
-s
Wed Aug 16 09:20:15 CDT 2000
HOST                  NAME                          ID  #VALS
localhost             connections                   22   9245
HOST                  NAME                          ID  #VALS
localhost             fwx_forw                    8189   8300
HOST                  NAME                          ID  #VALS
localhost             fwx_backw                   8188   9003

....

Sun Aug 20 01:12:33 CDT 2000
HOST                  NAME                          ID  #VALS
localhost             connections                   22   1237
HOST                  NAME                          ID  #VALS
localhost             fwx_forw                    8189    352
HOST                  NAME                          ID  #VALS
localhost             fwx_backw                   8188  55462


Mon Aug 21 14:52:07 CDT 2000
HOST                  NAME                          ID  #VALS
localhost             connections                   22  24465
HOST                  NAME                          ID  #VALS
localhost             fwx_forw                    8189  24235
HOST                  NAME                          ID  #VALS
localhost             fwx_backw                   8188  99363
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