[c-nsp] 3550 High CPU Load

Chris Strandt strandtc at littleblueroom.com
Fri Nov 19 11:48:51 EST 2004


Every so often, the CPU Util goes psyco on my Cisco 3550.  In the past, 
a quick reboot solved the issue.  I recently upgraded IOS (to 12.1(22)EA1a).

Normally CPU is down around 20%.

Any ideas?

Dist1#show processes cpu
CPU utilization for five seconds: 92%/73%; one minute: 92%; five 
minutes: 94%
 PID Runtime(ms)   Invoked      uSecs   5Sec   1Min   5Min TTY Process
   1        5256    146569         35  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Chunk 
Manager   
   2        1200    106405         11  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Load 
Meter      
   3         244        75       3253  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 SpanTree 
Helper 
   4      786632     81081       9701  0.16%  0.10%  0.11%   0 Check 
heaps     
   5     4909536  11790674        416  2.37%  0.98%  0.89%   0 Pool 
Manager    
   6           0         2          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 
Timers          
   7          60         5      12000  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Entity 
MIB API  
   8       32128    105951        303  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 HC 
Counter Timer
   9     1574548    562896       2797  0.16%  0.21%  0.22%   0 ARP 
Input       
  10        9148    220538         41  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Net 
Input       
  11           0         1          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Critical 
Bkgnd  
  12       21688    253010         85  0.00%  0.02%  0.00%   0 Net 
Background  
  13          44        20       2200  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 
Logger          
  14        7544    517346         14  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 TTY 
Background  
  15       29080    517356         56  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 
Per-Second Jobs 
  16      116984    106032       1103  0.00%  0.03%  0.01%   0 Compute 
load avg
  17       39456      8873       4446  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 
Per-minute Jobs 
  18           0        30          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 AggMgr 
Process  
  19           0         2          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Vegas 
Storm Cont
  20      663020  12557510         52  0.81%  0.55%  0.56%   0 Vegas LED 
Proces
  21           0         1          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 
SCQ_PROCESS     
  22       77620   2577243         30  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 RAM 
Access      
  23      100088   9760155         10  0.08%  0.03%  0.04%   0 SW Frame 
Ager   
  24          28        44        636  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 VLAN Info 
Update
  25           0         1          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 JADE Gbit 
lockup
  26        5488   1031144          5  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 L2TM 
Process    
  27     2909076   1485779       1957  0.49%  0.40%  0.40%   0 Vegas 
Statistics
  28       19480   1031143         18  0.00%  0.01%  0.00%   0 
L3TM            
  29      100812   6906275         14  0.08%  0.05%  0.06%   0 HMATM 
Learn proc
  30       10248    517350         19  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 HMATM Age 
proces
  31          40       103        388  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 
VL2MM           
  32       10844    517443         20  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 
L3MD            
  33      403816   1852753        217  0.24%  0.13%  0.13%   0 
L3MD_STAT       
  34           0         1          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Vegas 
Bridging  
  35       87120   6468843         13  0.16%  0.05%  0.05%   0 
VegasPM         
  36     7245364  12261228        590  1.47%  1.17%  1.25%   0 VUR_MGR 
bg proce
  37         236       270        874  0.00%  0.05%  0.01%   1 Virtual 
Exec    
  38          16      4437          3  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 DHCP 
Snooping   
  39    10159032  27352598        371  2.04%  1.64%  1.55%   0 IP 
Input        
  40       12564     84824        148  0.08%  0.00%  0.00%   0 DTP 
Protocol    
  41         108     53216          2  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 
Ethchnl         
  42      102904   2338821         43  0.00%  0.06%  0.06%   0 VLAN 
Manager    
  43      419136    517349        810  0.08%  0.13%  0.12%   0 PI MATM 
Aging Pr
  44           4         8        500  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 VMATM 
Callback  
  45     2226076    266125       8364  0.40%  0.41%  0.38%   0 Spanning 
Tree   
  46          16      8873          1  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 
Port-Security   
  47        6632    532377         12  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 
UDLD            
  48           0         1          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Vegas 
wccp manag
  49        4500     18097        248  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 DHCPD 
Receive   
  50         112      8895         12  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 IP RIB 
Update   
  51           0         1          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 HTTP 
Timer      
  52           0         1          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 RARP 
Input      
  53         108       987        109  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 TCP 
Timer       
  54          96       303        316  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 TCP 
Protocols   
  55           0         1          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Socket 
Timers   
  56          48        79        607  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 
L2MM            
  57           0         1          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 
MRD             
 PID Runtime(ms)   Invoked      uSecs   5Sec   1Min   5Min TTY Process
  58          92       576        159  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 
IGMPSN          
  59           0         2          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 L2TRACE 
SERVER  
  60          28      6657          4  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Cluster 
L2      
  61         312     53214          5  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Cluster 
RARP    
  62         384     66510          5  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Cluster 
Base    
  63     3825556    107006      35750  0.40%  0.54%  0.60%   0 Adj 
Manager     
  64           8      8873          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 IP Cache 
Ager   
  65           0         1          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   2 Virtual 
Exec    
  67           0         2          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Router 
Autoconf 
  68           0         2          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 VTPMIB 
EDIT BUFF
  69       20844   3296288          6  0.08%  0.01%  0.00%   0 PM 
Callback     
  70           0         1          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 VFM Queue 
Proces
  71           4         5        800  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 VFM/VQM 
Merge Pr
  72           4         4       1000  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 VFM 
Deferred Upd
  73          36      4437          8  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 DHCPD 
Timer     
  74           0        84          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 VTP Trap 
Process
  75        5040    517349          9  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Vegas 
EnvMon Pro
  76           0         1          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Syslog 
Traps    
  77           0         2          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 STP STACK 
TOPOLO
  78           0         2          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 STP FAST 
TRANSIT
  79           0         2          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 STP STACK 
TOPOLO
  80           0         2          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 CSRT 
RAPID TRANS
  81           0         1          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 C3550 
DHCP Snoop
  82           0         5          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 SNMP 
Timers     
  83     6305392  23759369        265  1.72%  1.20%  1.11%   0 IP 
SNMP         
  84     1615860  11777045        137  0.40%  0.33%  0.30%   0 PDU 
DISPATCHER  
  85     8392316  11783201        712  1.88%  1.33%  1.27%   0 SNMP 
ENGINE     
  86           0         1          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 SNMP 
ConfCopyPro
  87           0         1          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 SNMP 
Traps      
  88        1372     17558         78  0.00%  0.01%  0.00%   0 IP 
Background   
  89    36940356    769731      47991  5.24%  5.30%  5.32%   0 CEF 
process     
  90        4044     37629        107  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 CEF 
Scanner     
  91      218140   4732691         46  0.08%  0.16%  0.16%   0 IP-EIGRP 
Hello  
  93        2944    540448          5  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 
NTP             
  94         192    150809          1  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 DHCPD 
Database  
  95       26492    344880         76  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 IP-EIGRP 
Router


-Chris


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