[nsp] AS5300 loosing memory

[Siva Valliappan]

there are newer documents on CCO to combat the below worms.  you can find
them on:

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/advisory.html

cheers
.siva

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Siva Valliappan wrote:

> Hi Jay,
>
>    you end users might be infected with blaster or some variant (sobig,
> nachi, etc).  it sounds like you are fast-switching on those routers
> and they are consuming all the available memory in building cache
> tables.
>
> check the below url out on how to deal with such types of worms.
>
> http://www.cisco.com/warp/customer/63/ts_codred_worm.shtml
>
> cheers
> .siva
>
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Jay Nakamura wrote:
>
> >
> > We have suddenly having issues with our as5300s.  We were running
> > 12.2(15)T5, I noticed gradual memory leak over days but one day free memory
> > just dropped and most of our 5300s started crashing.  Reboot helped for
> > couple hours but it started using up memory again.  I switched over to
> > 12.2(17a) but that hasn't solved the problem.
> >
> > If I do "sh proc mem", it seems that "IP Input" is hogging the RAM.  If I do
> > "clear ip route *", the free memory will increase to normal level but it
> > will again keep dropping.
> >
> > I am unsure as to the cause of the problem.  Any suggestions on what to look
> > for or what I can do?
> >
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