Cabletron's OpenView like product (I forget the name) seemed
particularly prone to this. It was pushing a 7206VXR's from a normal 20%
CPU usage to 90% during our testing of it.
Ramin
At 08:52 AM 10/16/00 -0700, Karyn Ulriksen wrote:
>If you are using HP OpenView (and possibly other net management tools), look
>at the setting for how often it scans for new network devices. I've
>actually had HP OpenView crash a router or two by overflowing the ARP tables
>on a good size network.
>
>Don't know if you have a network management app on your network, but try
>disabling it and then taking a look at what the CPU reads...
>
>Karyn
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: RSMANI [mailto:rsm@ren.nic.in]
> > Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 9:22 PM
> > To: cisco-FAQ
> > Subject: [nsp] REGARDING CPU USAGE!!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi!
> > I see the 4500 router loaded a bit more than normal.
> > The sh process cpu shows a huge cpu utilisation for ARP.. Can
> > anyone guess
> > what can be the reason..?
> >
> > 641228 1032572 621 29.39% 31.20% 25.53% 0 ARP Input
> >
> > Thanx in advance
> > Iyer
> >
> >
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