Thomas Kernen wrote:
>
> Sounds weird since I have a bunch of 7204s that run much more stuff than this box
> does with "only" 128Megs.
>
> Thomas
>
> George Robbins wrote:
> >
> > Well, do a show mem proximate to the time the failure. Fragmentation might
> > be rearing it's ugly head, just becuase you start with enough memory doesn't
> > mean it'll last. In this case it couldn't allocate a block of 64K contig.
> >
> > There are a number of features that you don't want to turn on in cases
> > were you're taking full routes - soft reconfig & multiple paths seem to
> > take a lot of memory, there are probably others...
> >
> > George
> >
> > >
> > > Anyone come across a Malloc on a 7206VXR running 12.0(12)S (SP feature set)?
> > >
> > > %SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 65496 bytes failed from 0x6044CA1C, pool Processor, alignment 16 -Process= "BGP Router",
> > > ipl= 0, pid= 78 -Traceback= 6044FC34 60451390 6044CA24 6044D370 603573A4 6033D294 60342748 60347794 6034CF04 605939B8 60570A30
> > > 60572DB8
> > > 606C6444 606C6A30 609FC000 606C6ADC
> > > %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.
> > >
> > > Thomas
> > >
> > >
I had a similar issue with a 6509. 128Megs, 3 full route tables.
Multipath doubled the CEF usage and caused CEF to become disabled.
If you have Multipath disabled, try turning it off.
-- Marc
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