[nsp] ATM problems (DSL)

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 12:14:26PM +0100, Chris Roberts wrote:
> Using cricket or another tool to examine your CPU usage isn't very useful,
> try 'sh proc cpu' (and run it regularly, say, every 10 seconds). CPU usage
> can burst for a second or two when a routing update is received and then
> drop back to normal, and these kind of spikes would easily get averaged out
> with cricket unless you're sampling every second. It's these CPU spikes that
> can cause the packet loss (or are a symptom of it).

Very recent IOSes have "show proc cpu history" which prints nice
graphs of the CPU peaks over the last 60 seconds / 60 minutes / 72 hours.

gert

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