Hi Dave-
A few of the 11.1.xCC images had problems with memory fragmentation.
It got pretty bad around 23 (couldn't go for much more than 4 or 5 days
without running into MALLOC failures) and really didn't clear up until
around 26.
-mtw
Dave Curado (davec@navipath.com) wrote:
> We saw a signficant routing flap tonight, that resulted in some
> of our ebgp speaking routers running out of memory.
> On closer inspection, the routers all have enough memory
> (128M, with 40M or so free) but the largest free contiguous
> block is very small on routers that have been up for a year
> or so. Has anyone seen this?
>
> I've always believed that cisco routers do not require a
> "theraputic" reboot, but the data I'm looking at now suggests
> otherwise. (I rebooted one of these routers that had run out
> of memory, and it's largest contiguous block is much larger
> now.)
>
> Here's one of the more unhealthy routers that ran out of memory:
>
> --------------------
> 11.1.25cc
> show mem
> Head Total(b) Used(b) Free(b) Lowest(b) Largest(b)
> Processor 60AD9EE0 122839328 82389772 40449556 145788 4194368
> Fast 60AB9EE0 131072 115000 16072 16072 16028
>
> router uptime is 43 weeks, 17 hours, 46 minutes
> --------------------
>
> Thanks,
> davec
>
-- :wq
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