[c-nsp] Cisco 7507 RSP4 with 2* Vip2-50

[Jon Lewis]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Gert Doering wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:00:54AM -0500, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
>>> Jan 21 10:59:00: %FIB-3-FIBDISABLE: Fatal error, slot/cpu 1/0: no memory Jan
>>> 21 10:59:01: %FIB-3-FIBDISABLE: Fatal error, slot/cpu 4/0: no memory Jan 21
>>> 10:59:03: %IPC-5-SLAVELOG: VIP-SLOT1:
>>
>> Are you taking full BGP routes on this router?  If so, I suspect that the
>> CEF cache is too big to fit in the memory on those VIP2-50s.
>
> On our 7500 with 12.0S, the VIP2-50s with 128 Mb have 59 Mb "free".  The
> "CEF LC IPC Background" process holds 45 Mb, *Init* holds 20 Mb.
>
> So even with the much larger IOS footprint in 12.2S, 128 Mb VIP memory
> should be plenty.

Must be an IOS bug fragging his memory.  12.2(18)S6 on VIP2-50 with 128mb 
and full routes has 58MB free.

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