[c-nsp] 7500 having problems after upgrade from 12.0.19S2 to 12.0.31S1

[Jon Lewis]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, CLAEREBOUDT Elke wrote:

> We've upgraded a 7500 from 12.0.19S2 to 12.0.31S1 , RSP has 256K of
> memory. After 10 days router started to misbehave and we had to isolate
> it from the network. Cisco case opened gave us the answer, you need 512M
> on a rsp when it has more then 100K routes (has 170K). Cpu is very
> unstable and points to snmp engine.

What was your free mem under 12.0.19S2?  Assuming it was considerably 
more, I'd say there's bugs/memory leaks in the new IOS.  I've got several 
RSP4's with full BGP routes and 40-50mb free, all running 12.2(18)S.

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