Interesting.
7507, CEF, 12.0.16S, RSP4:
core1.oct#sho proc me | inc BGP
PID TTY Allocated Freed Holding Getbufs Retbufs Process
114 0 2112572936 14641816 77504456 0 0 BGP Router
7507, CEF, 12.0.17S, RSP8:
core1.nyc#sho proc mem | inc BGP
PID TTY Allocated Freed Holding Getbufs Retbufs Process
115 0 2448892088 217115448 158925712 0 0 BGP Router
They both have similar interfaces (GEIP+, PA-A3-OC12-MM, VIP4-80's,
VIP2-50's).
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:12:10AM -0400, Przemyslaw Karwasiecki wrote:
> > Basically BGP router process on box running IOS 12.1 is holding
> > ~45MB of memory, while on box working in comparable condition,
> > but wth IOS upgraded to 12.2 the same BGP router process is holding
> > ~73MB of memory. Is it normal and expected?
> > In other words: Is it a feature, or is it a bug :-) ?
>
> This is likely to be CEF (memory used by CEF is accounted to the BGP
> process). And yes, this amount of memory seems to be "normal" for
> a full BGP table.
>
> With 12.0S, I have:
>
> - no CEF, NPE-225:
> 84 0 139795568 47721452 58320988 0 0 BGP Router
>
> - with CEF, NPE-400:
> 91 0 79328336 1014588 75063872 0 0 BGP Router
>
> so those figures match what you observe.
>
> (What BGP *does* with these amounts of memory hasn't been answered
> yet - "show ip b su" adds up to only about half the amount of memory)
>
> gert
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