Symptom

If the config is huge, the java heap space may be exhausted during deploy and the deployment will fail.(e.g. Over 500 Sub-If , Huge number of ACL, etc) And,java heap dump is sometimes generated when deploy failure is occurred. [e.g. logs] 2020-10-05 10:07:32 VmsBackendServer[13040]: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space 2020-10-05 10:07:32 VmsBackendServer[13040]: Dumping heap to java_pid13040.hprof ... 2020-10-05 10:08:35 VmsBackendServer[13040]: Heap dump file created [2632827798 bytes in 63.752 secs] /var/opt/CSCOpx/MDC/be/bin: java_pid13040.hprof 2.5G -rw------- 1 casuser casusers 2.5G Oct 5 10:08 java_pid13040.hprof

Conditions

Using FMC

Workaround

Reduce unnecessary or unused rules.

Further Problem Description