[nsp] Checking memory on Cisco 7600 with dual Sup2/MSFC2s

[Simon Hamilton-Wilkes]

True, but with a minimum of 128MB it's not something I worry about.
In all the settings I've seen 6500 / 7600 so far anyhow - the CEF table
on my 6500's is < 1/2 MB.

Maybe on a 7600 in a backbone scenario, but then dCEF becomes necessary.

Do you know of a way to show the Supervisor memory usage under Native IOS ?

-----Original Message-----
From: Bradley Dunn [mailto:bradley at dunn.org]
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 8:57 PM
To: Simon Hamilton-Wilkes
Cc: 'Cisco-NSP'
Subject: Re: [nsp] Checking memory on Cisco 7600 with dual Sup2/MSFC2s


Simon Hamilton-Wilkes wrote:
> Under native IOS the memory reported under 'sh ver' is the MSFC memory,
> NOT the Supervisor memory - the supervisor memory becomes irrelevant
because
> when running native the MSFC is running the show!

The amount of supervisor memory is far from irrelevant. On the Sup2 and
Sup720 the supervisor memory holds a CEF table. Bad things happen when
the CEF table won't fit.

Bradley