[c-nsp] c7206VXR(NPE-G1) w/ 12.2(18)S8 - Memory failures

[Jared Mauch]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 10:34:39AM +0200, Santiago Felipe Perez wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> we are using IOS 12.2(18)S8 in some of our router and sometimes when we make changes on the BGP policy we run out of largest memory, and we are not able to see the running-config or to save running-config to startup-config and to solve this problem we have to reload the router.
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> Our routers are 7206VXR witch NPE-G1 with 256M and the routers are configured with MPLS and managing BGP tables around 160.000 prefixes, we have openned a TAC case but Cisco engineer told us that bug CSCdy18789 is solved in 12.2(18)S8 and that Cisco recommends 512M of memory for routers that manages between 100.000 and 200.000 BGP routes.
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> Have anyone had the same problem?, do you think that the problem will be solved upgrading memory to 512M? because we have other routers with 12.2(14)S and we haven´t experienced this problem.


	I would upgrade memory to 512m or even 1G as if you upgrade
to 12.2(25)S in the future you will see significant memory usage.

	I recommend that anyone who is running full bgp routes upgrade
to at least 512m, if not more if your system can handle more just to reduce
the impact of any memory leak bug or other problem with the system.

	- jared

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