Re: [nsp] Malloc on a 7206VXR

From: Siva Valliappan (svalliap@cisco.com)
Date: Tue Oct 24 2000 - 13:53:21 EDT


if you don't need BGP multipath i would disable it. BGP multipath
is normally the common feature that sends a router over 128 megs
with full routes from multiple providers.

regards
.siva

>
>
> > Anyone come across a Malloc on a 7206VXR running 12.0(12)S (SP feature set)?
>
> > %FIB-3-NOMEM: Malloc Failure, disabling CEF
>
> > The box does have (I hope) enough ram for 3 full routing tables.
> > cisco 7206VXR (NPE300) processor with 122880K/40960K bytes of memory.
>
> Well, 3 BGP tables and a routing table maybe, 3 full routing tables with CEF
> I assure you not; this would be the case if you were running MPLS.
>
> Anyway 128 megs for a router with full Internet routing table, three BGP
> tables and CEF plus features is rather short... Memory is cheap enough to fill
> in all the banks (256 megs in the case of the NPE-300/NSE-1 if I remember
> correctly) and forget about the issue for a couple months.
>
> In the meantime, I'd suggest that you fall back to flow switching and watch
> out the memory.
>
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