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# sk65463 - 'Peak' number of connections - discrepancy between the output of 'fw tab -t connections -s' command and the output of 'fw ctl pstat' command when CoreXL is enabled

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk65463 |
| Date Created | 2011-10-10 |
| Last Modified | 2023-04-26 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |
| Products | Security Gateway |
| Versions | R81.20, R81.10 (EOS), R81 (EOS) |
| OS | Gaia |

## Symptoms

- '`Peak`' number of connections differs in the output of '`fw tab -t connections -s`' command and in the output of '`fw ctl pstat`' command when CoreXL is enabled.

*Example*:

```
[Expert@FW]# fw tab -t connections -s 
HOST                  NAME                               ID #VALS #PEAK #SLINKS
localhost             connections                      8158   220  3299     631
[Expert@FW]#

[Expert@FW]# fw ctl pstat 
...................
Connections:
        14602990 total, 5918317 TCP, 8322438 UDP, 260968 ICMP,
        101267 other, 27495 anticipated, 9066 recovered, 201 concurrent,
        2814 peak concurrent
...................
[Expert@FW]#

[Expert@FW]# fw ctl multik stat
-------------------------------------------
ID | Active  | CPU    | Connections | Peak    
----------------------------------------------
 0 | Yes     | 1      |         108 |     1807
 1 | Yes     | 0      |         117 |     1492
[Expert@FW]#
```

## Cause

The correct value is shown in the output of the '**`fw ctl pstat`** ' command.   

The value displayed in 'fw ctl multik stat' under the 'Peak' column refers to connections handled by all the CoreXL instances that were either handled by this specific machine or are to be handled by other cluster members but have yet to by synced to them.  

The '`#PEAK`' counter in the output of '**`fw tab -t connections -s`** ' command is a sum of peak connections of all CoreXL FW instances (as seen in the output of '**`fw ctl multik stat`**' command).

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