[c-nsp] Cisco Router with High CPU WHY?

Elijah Savage esavage at reyrey.net
Wed Sep 20 11:03:36 EDT 2006


Karol Mares wrote:
> Hi Elijah,
>
> On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 10:17 -0400, Elijah Savage wrote:
>   
>> For the life of me I can't figure this one out. Can anyone tell me what 
>> the heck the Config Probe process is. After a reboot of this remote 
>> device this comes right back and I see nothing in bug track. This is a 
>> remote office router with a t1 on the serial side and the t1 is running 
>> at about 25% utilization.
>>     
>
>   
>> background
>>   68      368864    376153        980  0.24%  0.15%  0.14%   0 CEF 
>> process     
>>   *86    93119052  64813847       1436 34.22% 36.64% 36.51%   0 Config 
>> Probe    
>>   87    87366520  62834708       1390 20.21% 20.16% 21.94%   0 Config Probe*
>>     
>
>
> Hmm, what platform ? Propably a 7200.., This process is used when the
> service config is used in the global config mode, to autoload config
> file from the network. If you have NVRAM , disable the service config,
> or if you don`t have NVRAM, i would check the tftp availability also
> with the inode and fs where is the config file stored.
>
>   
Actually this is a remote office router a 2621.


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