[c-nsp] Re: MLP Memory Leak Issues in 12.2.25S1??

Dennis Peng dpeng at cisco.com
Tue Jan 18 14:49:54 EST 2005


Possibly CSCsa49019, which is committed to 12.2S, but not yet
integrated into a release. Would need to see the configuration first
to make sure. "debug ppp multilink events" should generate some error
too if you are running into this problem. Is the bundle up and
running?

Dennis

Brian Feeny [signal at shreve.net] wrote:
> 
> Rodney,
> 
> Apologies.  Below is some output that I could get.  I cannot get the 
> interface configuration just yet, until the
> router gets reloaded, and I have put in a request for that.
> 
> Its very possible something bad is being done in the configuration, 
> this router I have not been able to take a
> look at yet, I certainly didn't configure it in the first place.
> 
> 
> 
> System image file is "disk1:c7200-a3jk91s-mz.122-25.S1.bin"
> 
> 
> 
>   131   0        192        192       6864          0          0 
> Multilink PPP
>   132   0        192        192       6864          0          0 
> Multilink PPP ou
>   133   0  135940368  170195840   40791248          0          0 
> Multilink event
> 
> 
> 
> 
> nwcorp#show proc mem 131
> Process ID: 131
> Process Name: Multilink PPP
> Total Memory Held: 6864 bytes
> 
> Processor memory Holding = 6864 bytes
> pc = 0x60745E50, size =      6056, count =    1
> pc = 0x607328F8, size =       616, count =    1
> pc = 0x607349BC, size =       192, count =    1
> 
> I/O memory Holding = 0 bytes
> 
> PCI memory Holding = 0 bytes
> 
> nwcorp#show proc mem 132
> Process ID: 132
> Process Name: Multilink PPP out
> Total Memory Held: 6864 bytes
> 
> Processor memory Holding = 6864 bytes
> pc = 0x60745E50, size =      6056, count =    1
> pc = 0x607328F8, size =       616, count =    1
> pc = 0x607349BC, size =       192, count =    1
> 
> I/O memory Holding = 0 bytes
> 
> PCI memory Holding = 0 bytes
> 
> nwcorp#show proc mem 133
> Process ID: 133
> Process Name: Multilink event
> Total Memory Held: 40791248 bytes
> 
> Processor memory Holding = 40791248 bytes
> pc = 0x60B28FF8, size =  40782208, count = 408771
> pc = 0x60745E50, size =      6056, count =    1
> pc = 0x607328F8, size =       616, count =    1
> pc = 0x60B26CD8, size =       416, count =    3
> pc = 0x60B0F814, size =       408, count =    3
> pc = 0x60B253D8, size =       392, count =    1
> pc = 0x60AB8C14, size =       288, count =    3
> pc = 0x607349BC, size =       192, count =    1
> pc = 0x60AB8BDC, size =       176, count =    2
> pc = 0x60AB8E90, size =       168, count =    2
> pc = 0x60AB8E64, size =       168, count =    2
> pc = 0x60AB8DDC, size =       160, count =    2
> 
> I/O memory Holding = 0 bytes
> 
> PCI memory Holding = 0 bytes
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 18, 2005, at 7:41 AM, Rodney Dunn wrote:
> 
> > When you post a question about a possible bug
> > please always include the full IOS name.
> >
> > That's because to decode the PC values we
> > have to map it to a symbols file.
> >
> > Can you post the relevant interface configurations
> > also?
> >
> > If you can get 'sh proc mem' to see what the
> > process ID is for MLP bundle name then do a
> > 'sh proc mem <PID>' for it.
> >
> > Rodney
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:21:28PM -0600, Brian Feeny wrote:
> >> Is anyone aware of any problems in 12.2.25S1 that would cause a memory
> >> leak in MLP?
> >>
> >> We have a 7204 that is doing MLP on over 2 T1 lines, running 12.2.25S1
> >> for about 4 weeks.  It is out of memory so the CLI is not allowing me
> >> to do alot of things (like "show run").
> >>
> >> I do see however:
> >>
> >> nwcorp#show mem allocating-process totals
> >>                  Head    Total(b)     Used(b)     Free(b)   Lowest(b)
> >> Largest(b)
> >> Processor   636CBC80    59982720    59793888      188832           0
> >>     91024
> >>        I/O    7000000    16777216     1635216    15142000    15022688
> >> 15134176
> >>        PCI   4B000000     4194304      842144     3352160     3352160
> >>   3352128
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Allocator PC Summary for: Processor
> >>
> >>      PC          Total   Count  Name
> >> 0x60B28FF8   40782208  408771  MLP bundle name
> >> 0x606F6E08    3840280       5  Init
> >> 0x60352590    1937616       2  RMON packet pool
> >> 0x60745E50    1302008     143  Interrupt Stack
> >> 0x606A6C34     603696     747  *Packet Header*
> >> 0x606D9414     560152       1  IDB List Element Chunks
> >>
> >>
> >> I did check Bug Toolkit for anything that hit on MLP, but nothing in
> >> there looks like it would cause what I am seeing.  The router is
> >> working, and I plan to reload it soon to do more diagnostics, but if
> >> anyone knows of this issue, please let me know.
> >>
> >> Brian
> >>
> >>
> >> Brian Feeny, CCIE #8036, CISSP
> >> Network Engineer
> >> ShreveNet Inc.
> >>
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> ---------------------------------------------
> Brian Feeny, CCIE #8036, CISSP
> Network Engineer
> ShreveNet Inc.
> 
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