> Source: [sk167559](https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk167559)

# sk167559 - Deleting a host takes a long time

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk167559 |
| Date Created | 2020-08-10 |
| Last Modified | 2020-09-02 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |
| Products | Security Management Server |
| Versions | R82.10, R82, R81.20 |

## Symptoms

- * In environment with \> 10,000 hosts, the deletion process takes a long time, and causes the SmartConsole to be unresponsive.
* SmartConsole is in "freeze" / "busy mode" when deleting a host from the objects right pane.

## Cause

We hold all defined host objects in memory, and the deletion process requires cleaning the object from the memory.  
This functionality is composed from both "new" implementation of the delete command and legacy implementation, and the combination of the two affects latency of the issue.

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