[c-nsp] 3550 high cpu & process switched traffic

omar parihuana omar.parihuana at gmail.com
Fri Aug 18 13:42:36 EDT 2006


Hi,

There is something wrong.. I have a 3550 with near 100SVI and my CPU
process not reach 20%

! omitted...
!
Vlan369                    192.168.67.25   YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan372                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan375                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  down
     down
Vlan381                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  down
     down
Vlan384                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  down
     down
Vlan385                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  down
     down
Vlan387                    192.168.67.37   YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan388                    192.168.66.65   YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan389                    192.168.67.169  YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan390                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan391                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  down
     down
Vlan392                    192.168.66.85   YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan393                    192.168.66.89   YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan394                    192.168.67.129  YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan395                    192.168.66.105  YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan396                    192.168.67.101  YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan397                    192.168.67.165  YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan398                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan399                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan400                    192.168.68.5    YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan401                    192.168.68.9    YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan402                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  down
     down
Vlan403                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  up
     down
Vlan404                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  down
     down
Vlan405                    192.168.69.97   YES manual up
     up
Vlan406                    192.168.68.13   YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan407                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan408                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan409                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  down
     down
Vlan410                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan411                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan413                    192.168.68.21   YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan414                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan415                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  down
     down
Vlan416                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  down
     down
Vlan421                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan422                    192.168.69.17   YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan423                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan424                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan425                    unassigned      YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan426                    192.168.68.193  YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan427                    192.168.68.253  YES NVRAM  up
     up
Vlan428                    192.168.69.89   YES NVRAM  up
     up
!
!  ... and continue....


switch-l3#sh processes cpu
CPU utilization for five seconds: 10%/1%; one minute: 15%; five minutes: 11%

Please give more details, all sh process cpu..  Did you try restart
the switch, or maybe there are some background intensive CPU process
(i,e. debugs...)


Rgds.

On 8/18/06, Tassos Chatzithomaoglou <achatz at forthnet.gr> wrote:
> I have a 3550 (12.1(22)EA8) which is constantly showing high cpu usage :
>
> 3550#sh proc cpu
> CPU utilization for five seconds: 99%/96%; one minute: 97%; five minutes: 97%
>
> If i'm not wrong, most of it is due to interrupts and i'm trying to find out what exactly is causing
> this. The 3550 has 3 SVIs (1 for management), 6 routed interfaces (5 of them have mls qos
> configured) and 2 L2 interfaces (one is trunk).
>
> Also I would like to ask if the following output (only processor used for eggress traffic on ALL
> interfaces) is considered normal for 3550 switches:
>
> 3550#sh int stats
> Vlan1
>           Switching path    Pkts In   Chars In   Pkts Out  Chars Out
>                Processor        179      12172        179      10740
>              Route cache          0          0          0          0
>                    Total        179      12172        179      10740
> Vlan4
>           Switching path    Pkts In   Chars In   Pkts Out  Chars Out
>                Processor       2806     179584       2806     168360
>              Route cache       8295     581139          0          0
>                    Total      11101     760723       2806     168360
> Vlan10
>           Switching path    Pkts In   Chars In   Pkts Out  Chars Out
>                Processor   21993427 2785897656   20910415 2025707486
>              Route cache 2289603255 1233480520          0          0
>                    Total 2311596682 4019378176   20910415 2025707486
> Interface FastEthernet0/1 is disabled
>
> FastEthernet0/2
>           Switching path    Pkts In   Chars In   Pkts Out  Chars Out
>                Processor          0          0     718962  112668280
>              Route cache          0          0          0          0
>                    Total          0          0     718962  112668280
> FastEthernet0/3
>           Switching path    Pkts In   Chars In   Pkts Out  Chars Out
>                Processor      98405    6710609     535543   50002650
>              Route cache 2288708113 1141208459          0          0
>                    Total 2288806518 1147919068     535543   50002650
> FastEthernet0/4
>           Switching path    Pkts In   Chars In   Pkts Out  Chars Out
>                Processor      89343   11874108  396765671 2089412449
>              Route cache  543340008 1149008067          0          0
>                    Total  543429351 1160882175  396765671 2089412449
>
> ....
>
>
> "sh int switching" shows the same problem for all interfaces : The Fast path has 0 entries for all
> protocols including IP.
>
> Regards,
> Tassos
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