[c-nsp] Knowing Router's Memory ( Forgot to give subject ....earlier

[Michael Loftis]

--On Thursday, April 07, 2005 2:21 PM +0000 Gangasagar Amula 
<sagar_cisco at rediffmail.com> wrote:

>   
> Dear All,
> When we see the total memory thro' sh version command, what that
> bifurcation mean.... As per below example, what is 257024k and 5120k
> indicates?
> MUM-CO-3662#sh ver
> cisco 3660 (R527x) processor (revision 1.0) with 257024K/5120K bytes of
> memory.

250Mb (or so) for routing processes etc and 5Mb (or so) for I/O buffers 
used by the interfaces and packet forwarding hardware.

> Also we get the different total thro' sh memory comand.....So which
> indicates the total amount of memory? How I/O memory differs from
> Processor memory.....( related to the functionality..what does I/O memory
> posses..) MUM-CO-3662#sh mem

Yup, your IOS kernel/core has used up the difference in overhead.  It then 
reports the remainder of the 257024k

>                    Head            Total(b)
> Processor          61E9D400   231091200
>       I/O          FB00000     5242880
>
> Regards,
> Sagar.