[c-nsp] Memory leak on in latest 12.0S on GSR? *Solved*

Aaron dudepron at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 11:42:19 EDT 2011


I use it in the lab all the time. I do recommend a quality flash disk.

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 00:50, Mack McBride <mack.mcbride at viawest.com> wrote:

> We ran into a number of issues with the continuous writes killing the flash
> and other flash related issues.
>
> The other issue we ran into was unacceptably long reboot times.
>
> We also found the code conversion was unacceptably long.
>
> Cisco highly recommends the PRP-3.
>
> Our experience was that XR on the PRP-2 was less than stellar other users
> may have a different experience.
>
>
>
> Mack
>
>
>
> *From:* Aaron [mailto:dudepron at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 07, 2011 9:21 PM
> *To:* Mack McBride
> *Cc:* Drew Weaver; Sascha Pollok; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>
> *Subject:* Re: [c-nsp] Memory leak on in latest 12.0S on GSR? *Solved*
>
>
>
> XR works just fine with prp-2
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 13:06, Mack McBride <mack.mcbride at viawest.com>
> wrote:
>
> The GSR is still a solid supported platform, unfortunately the support
> contracts are completely
> out of line with where the GSR fits in the grand scheme of things.  The
> newer PRP-3 cards are also
> way over priced.  Unfortunately the move to XR code is next to impossible
> without moving to PRP-3 cards.
>
> Mack
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Drew Weaver [mailto:drew.weaver at thenap.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 11:01 AM
> To: Mack McBride; Sascha Pollok; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: [c-nsp] Memory leak on in latest 12.0S on GSR? *Solved*
>
> At least for those of us who are unfortunately still using GSRs =)
>
> +1
>
> -Drew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:
> cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Mack McBride
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 12:48 PM
> To: Sascha Pollok; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Memory leak on in latest 12.0S on GSR? *Solved*
>
> Good info +1
>
> Mack
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:
> cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Sascha Pollok
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 3:07 AM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Memory leak on in latest 12.0S on GSR? *Solved*
>
> >> I did some digging and found, that "show mem dead" is awfully long.
> Feels
> >> like millions of lines (could be ten thousands of lines, too). Most of
> them
> >> refer to a process that I can not find anything about:
> >>
> >> 07406718 0000000040 074066C8 0740676C 001  -------- -------- 001FF434
> acct
> >> periodic timer
> >>
> >> "acct periodic timer" - doh! Anyone with an idea what that is?
> >
> > Here is the top output of "sh mem dead total":
> >
> >  Dead Proc Summary for: Processor
> >
> >      PC          Total  Name
> >  0x001FF434    1078452  acct periodic timer
> >  0x0078EF44        114  Virtual Exec
> >  0x0078EED8        114  Virtual Exec
> >  0x0078EEC0        114  Virtual Exec
> >  0x006D0AD8         79  TCP CB
> >
> > Looks like "acct periodic timer" is indeed forgetting to tidy up it's
> > room lots of times. Any help is appreciated.
> >
> > Thank
> > Sascha
>
> For the records:
>
> the reason for my memory leak problem on latest 12.0(33)S was the
> following configuration statement (for whatever reason it was there):
>
>   aaa accounting update periodic 5
>
> Removed this statement and reload once (to make the Check Heaps process
> run quickly again) and everythings fine.
>
> -Sascha
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