[cisco-bba] cpu load due to PPP IPCP (Add Route)

Dennis Peng dpeng at cisco.com
Mon Jun 20 19:36:52 EDT 2005


What version was this? I'm not sure how this would happen. It's
strange that "clear ppp queues" did anything since that should only
clear the statistics (counters). If this occurs again, can you grab
"debug ppp events"?

Dennis

Tassos Chatzithomaoglou [achatz at forthnet.gr] wrote:
> Today we had the cpu of one of our 7200's reaching 100%. We found that this was due to the "IPCP 
> Skipped - Add Route:" which was constantly increasing (we supply routes per user through radius). 
> After we did a "clear ppp queue", it returned to normal.
> 
> Any idea what might have happened?
> 
> router#sh proc cpu sorted | e 0.00
> CPU utilization for five seconds: 99%/70%; one minute: 99%; five minutes: 99%
>   PID Runtime(ms)   Invoked      uSecs   5Sec   1Min   5Min TTY Process
>    77    14284408   3108213       4595 20.47% 21.03% 21.11%   0 PPP IPCP         <---
>   163    84786456   2270413      37344  1.86%  0.79%  0.64%   0 VTEMPLATE Backgr
>   148    75342260   4779805      15762  1.19%  0.76%  0.76%   0 IGMP Input
>   150    92048440  14330863       6423  1.12%  1.02%  1.00%   0 PIM Process
>    31    42891736   4708264       9109  1.12%  0.42%  0.38%   0 Per-Second Jobs
>   156    32672884 184875306        176  1.04%  1.03%  1.04%   0 PPP Events
>    79    84550988   7024517      12036  0.97%  0.69%  0.67%   0 CEF process
>   129    48902960    889685      54966  0.59%  0.53%  0.53%   0 Compute load avg
>    50    56443568 247614090        227  0.29%  0.38%  0.37%   0 IP Input
>     5    32496292   1692766      19197  0.22%  0.17%  0.22%   0 Check heaps
>   167    18315212  18625936        983  0.22%  0.21%  0.24%   0 OSPF Router
>    63     4082388   5244432        778  0.14%  0.12%  0.11%   0 IP Background
>   160     1580920 997329231          1  0.14%  0.04%  0.01%   0 SAA Event Proces
>    76     9643460   1590124       6064  0.07%  1.58%  1.62%   0 PPP IP Route
> 
> 
> router#sh ppp queues
> 
> 5 Event Queues
>                   size   max      kicks     starts    false   suspends ticks(ms)
>   1 PPP Events       0     9      27514      27512        7          0        20
>   5 PPP Bind         0     2        445        445        0          0        20
>   3 PPP IPCP         0     0          0          0        0          0        20
>   2 PPP IP Route     0     3        226        226        0          0       100
>   4 PPP Hooks        0     1          1          1        0          0        20
> 
>   30 Events
>   #  Q Name                 Events   Queued  MaxQueued Suspends  usec/evt max/evt
>   1  1 Setup                     1        0        1        0       654       654
>   2  1 Free PPP                661        0        3        0       111      3172
>   3* 1 Timer                 28072 4294967290 4294967295        1      1047      9575
>   4  1 Cstate                   18        0        3        0      1041      4249
>   5  1 Restart CP                0        0        0        0         0         0
>   6    UNREGISTERED
>   7  1 Hard Disc               409        0        2        0       893      2466
>   8  1 Soft Disc                77        0        2        2      3174      9366
>   9  1 Packet                    2 4294967294 4294967295        0       380       475
> 10  1 Auth Packet               0        0        0        0         0         0
> 11* 3 IPCP Packet               0        0        0        0         0         0
> 12* 2 Add Route                 0        0        0        0         0         0
> 13* 2 Remove Route            247        0        3        0       293      1358
> 14* 2 Remove Top                0        0        0        0         0         0
> 15* 2 Remove Flag               0        0        0        0         0         0
> 16* 2 Neg Addr Add              0        0        0        0         0         0
> 17* 2 Neg Addr Remov            0        0        0        0         0         0
> 18* 2 DHCP Opt Add              0        0        0        0         0         0
> 19* 2 DHCP Opt Del              0        0        0        0         0         0
> 20* 2 IPCP UP                   0        0        0        0         0         0
> 21  1 Set LCP Open            448        0        2        0       497      1794
> 22  1 Virtualize                0        0        0        0         0         0
> 23  1 Redirect                  0        0        0        0         0         0
> 24  1 Forwarded                 1        0        1        0       317       317
> 25  4 Hook                      1        0        1        0        17        17
> 26  1 AAA Response              3        0        2        0       994      1568
> 27  1 Static Bind               1        0        1        0       379       379
> 28  5 Dynamic Bind            448        0        2        0       585      1893
> 29  1 Bound                     0        0        0        0         0         0
> 30  1 Virtual Profil            0        0        0        0         0         0
> 
> Pre-processed Requests  LCP:         0  IPCP:         0
> PPP Request Failures: 0
> PPP Hold Queue Drops: 14248
> IPCP Skipped - Add Route:         545  AddrAdd:         0  AddrRem:         0
> PPP Handles:  alloc[5719489] free[5717015] outstanding[2474]
> 
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