[c-nsp] High load problem on 7206 vxr

Rodney Dunn rodunn at cisco.com
Mon Sep 27 09:47:39 EDT 2004


One thing I can say is that 12.1E will not have any
of the recent performance enhancements for scalability
for broadband aggregation.

That code is closed for any new enhancements and is bugfix
only now.

You should consider 12.3 or 12.3T for broadband aggregation.

Rodney

On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 11:23:10PM -0700, Jay Hennigan wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Mustafa N. Deeb wrote:
> 
> > i have a VXR used to terminate ADSL , (was running 12.1.19 )
> > i upgraded the IOS to 12.1.23E1 to include PPTP support
> >
> >
> > beofre , i used to terminate 200 adsl users with CPU load not more
> > than 34% , now , it is hitting the roof
> > with the same number of users!!
> >
> > no errors in the logs at all
> >
> > Any ideas where the problem could be ?
> 
> How much RAM, what processing engine?  What does "sho proc cpu" say are
> the biggest hogs?  We're terminating over 1000 adsl PVCs on a 7206 VXR,
> NPE 300, 256M RAM.  Running 12.3.10 just upgraded from 12.2T.  CPU is
> at about 60% peak hour, still a bit high for my liking.  Will probably
> go with a G1 NPE soon.  Biggest hogs are IP input and IP SNMP (when MRTG
> snarfs all of those counters...)
> 
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