[c-nsp] 2950G-EI memory?

[Aivars]

What IOS do you have?

Aivars

Thursday, November 3, 2005, 8:27:26 AM, you wrote:

S> I have many C2950G-48-EI's and the other day I could not gain telnet access
S> to one of them and a few machines behind it where having issues getting to
S> the world.  When plugging a console into it I received the following
S> message...

S> %% Low on memory; try again later
S> Local Memory Statistics
S> Free = 40         Total = 3847808    Used = 3847768

S> The only way for me to fix the problem and get into the switch was to reboot
S> it.  Traffic into the switch was only 5-6mbit also.  Today I started to add
S> my 2950's into nagios so that I can monitor cpu and memory when I noticed
S> that a few of the other 2950's showed 0 memory free..

S> Example from one of them...

S>                Head    Total(b)     Used(b)     Free(b)   Lowest(b)
S> Largest(b)
S> Processor   80C8F980     3847808     3847808           0        0
S> 0
S>       I/O   A0A46540     2397216     1734352      662864      202368
S> 560432

S> Now i noticed that Processor shows 0 Free but I/O shows 662864 bytes free.

S> A sh proc mem on the same switch showed me the following...

S> Total: 6245024, Used: 5581072, Free: 663952

S> My question here is should proc mem free be 0? why is there all these
S> different memory readings and which one should I pay attention to?  Also
S> what's the best way to find whats eating the memory, sh mem displayed way to
S> much stuff.  sh proc mem?

S> The OID's i'm using to monitor memory are
S> 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.48.1.1.1.5.1 for 
S> used and 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.48.1.1.1.6.1 for free.  I was told these are for
S> 5min averages, which doesnt make much sense why you'd have a 5 min average
S> on memory but if this is true, is their a real-time oid?

S> Thanks in advance.

S> ~Shaun 



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