[nsp] BGP issues after upgrading IOS versions

[Robert E. Seastrom]

Scott Lambert <scott at inch.com> writes:

> With 12.2(18)S, the BGP sessions kept dieing with "out of memory"
> errors.  The router has 155MB according to "sho ver".
> 
> cisco 7206VXR (NPE300) processor with 155648K/40960K bytes of memory.
> R7000 CPU at 262Mhz, Implementation 39, Rev 2.1, 256KB L2, 2048KB L3 Cache
> 6 slot VXR midplane, Version 2.0

192mb total.  Probably right on the edge if you have soft
reconfiguration turned on or anything like that.  Take that puppy to
256mb - a kit to do so is $189 from Kingston, and I bet your problems
go away.

                                        ---Rob