On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Shepherd Kendall wrote:
> ]
> ] Head Total(b) Used(b) Free(b) Lowest(b) Largest(b)
> ] Processor 60AD9EE0 122839328 116858180 5981148 4160012 268352
> ] Fast 60AB9EE0 131072 125944 5128 5128 5084
> ]
> ] --
> ]
> ] Of 128KB of memory, this router has 5K free. I am assuming it is used
> ] for packet buffers or something dynamically allocated, but I would guess
> ] that it is running pretty close to the edge with these numbers.
>
> you'll find that the "fast" memory entry is the same on any Cisco (at least
> any i've seen). according to Cisco, this 128k block of "fast" memory is
> carved out of the DRAM and used specifically for IDB storage -- if you do
> a "sho mem fast" you'll see this is pretty obvious.
Silly me. If I just did the math on the "head" portion, I would have
recognized that the head of fast is 128KBytes ahead of the processor
memory. Or it looks like it at first glance.
Deepak Jain
AiNET
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