[c-nsp] 6509 IOS Question

Paul Stewart pstewart at nexicomgroup.net
Mon Jul 25 17:58:20 EDT 2005


Here's the top results...

CPU utilization for five seconds: 5%/5%; one minute: 16%; five minutes: 16%
 PID Runtime(ms)   Invoked      uSecs   5Sec   1Min   5Min TTY Process
 104    26135340 240661081        108  0.23%  0.15%  0.17%   0 IP Input
 132      100452   1779224         56  0.07%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Adj Manager
 133     3489896  16214864        215  0.07%  0.03%  0.02%   0 CEF process
   3         500        87       5747  0.00%  0.79%  0.20%   1 SSH Process
   4   208672044  10576909      19729  0.00%  4.15%  3.44%   0 Check heaps

It seems that "check heaps" is the biggest offender.... any thoughts?

Thanks in advance,

Paul



-----Original Message-----
From: David Sinn [mailto:dsinn at dsinn.com]
Sent: Mon 7/25/2005 5:30 PM
To: Paul Stewart
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] 6509 IOS Question
 
What's the output of a "show proc cpu" show?  That will tell you if it 
is interrupt or process-level and if it is process-level which process 
it is.

David

On Jul 25, 2005, at 1:20 PM, Paul Stewart wrote:

> Hi there...
>
> We have a 6509 here that pushes about 80 Mb/s of traffic at peak..
> Nothing major... But the CPU sits at 20% on average (on the MSFC
> card)....
>
> Had some company here today from another ISP and they average 3-4% with
> a few hundred Mb/s going through their 6509 (msfc2 as well)... They run
> 12.1 and we're running 12.2SXD4 release... Could the IOS be a reason 
> for
> much higher CPU?  It's not causing us any grief but will down the road
> with more traffic coming online shortly to that box...
>
> Our 6509 is taking 3 full BGP feeds inbound and providing one full feed
> out... OSPF on routing etc... Nothing major really.. No firewalling...
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Paul Stewart
>
>
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