Re: [nsp] Malloc on a 7206VXR

From: Thomas Kernen (tkernen@deckpoint.ch)
Date: Wed Oct 25 2000 - 02:26:02 EDT


Unfortunaly for me multipath is disabled, CEF is running, soft-reconfig inbound is running, communities are tagged. Basicaly the
same as on the 7204's. I think I'll be looking into a software bug watcher again to see if I don't
find something.

Thomas

Siva Valliappan wrote:
>
> 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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