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

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

Kristofer Sigurdsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ted Mittelstaedt, Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 01:34:46AM -0800 :
>> cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 10:34:39AM +0200, Santiago Felipe Perez
>>> wrote: 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 	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.
>>> 
>> 
>> The NPE 300 and NPE 225 only go to 256MB of ram.  What is your
>> suggestion there? 
>> 
>>> 	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.
>>> 
>> 
>> Not too long ago 128MB was sufficient for a full BGP table. Then it
>> went to 256MB which killed use of all NPE's under NPE225.
>> 
>> Now it is at 512 which kills all NPE's save the G1.
> 
> If I recall correctly, the NPE-400 and NSE-1 take up to 512 MB
> of RAM?

Ah, your right about that for the NPE400, don't know about the NSE.

But the NPE400 isn't very old, there's a lot of VXR's out there with
225's in them.  Going from 128 to 256 hurt a lot more as that took most
7206 non-VXR's out of the running, although I think you can still do a
full table with IOS 11.1  (it's been too long for me to know)

Ted