[c-nsp] Has anyone run into this error: %SYS-4-CHUNKMALLOCFAIL

[Hyunseog Ryu]

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Did you check the memory usage from the router such as "show proc mem" ?
It seems to me that IOS fails to allocate the memory for CEF table
because there is no memory available (Totle free: 0).

Hyun

Howard Leadmon wrote:
> I just recently installed a new 7206VXR/NPE-G2 router, and looking
> at the logging output I am seeing the following:
>
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> Oct 23 11:27:51.705 EDT: %SYS-4-CHUNKMALLOCFAIL: Could not allocate
> chunks for CEF: arp throt Total free: 0, Total inuse: 500, Cause :
> Not a dynamic chunk -Process= "<interrupt level>", ipl= 1, pid= 77,
> -Traceback= 0x13D5688 0x20974 0x20428 0x172B074 0x8BB14 0x686EFC
> 0x68AAD0 0x682A84 0x66D44C 0x66C328 0x671D50 0x66DA90 0x66C3E4
> 0x19DDCB4 0x19DDA3C 0x19DB0EC
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>
> .Oct 23 15:31:15.512 EDT: %SYS-4-CHUNKMALLOCFAIL: Could not
> allocate chunks for CEF: arp throt Total free: 0, Total inuse: 500,
> Cause : Not a dynamic chunk -Process= "<interrupt level>", ipl= 1,
> -Traceback= 0x13D5688 0x20974 0x20428 0x172B074 0x8BB14 0x686EFC
> 0x68AAD0 0x682A84 0x66D44C 0x66C328 0x671D50 0x66DA90 0x66C3E4
> 0x6F6F68
>
>
> Oct 24 01:29:22.248 EDT: %SYS-4-CHUNKMALLOCFAIL: Could not allocate
> chunks for CEF: arp throt Total free: 0, Total inuse: 500, Cause :
> Not a dynamic chunk -Process= "<interrupt level>", ipl= 1, pid= 77,
> -Traceback= 0x13D5688 0x20974 0x20428 0x172B074 0x8BB14 0x686EFC
> 0x68AAD0 0x682A84 0x66D44C 0x66C328 0x671D50 0x66DA90 0x66C3E4
> 0x14922D8
>
>
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> I tried to look this up on Cisco's site using their error and
> output decoders, but it returns that the %SYS-4-CHUNKMALLOCFAIL is
> not known.  So figured I would toss it out on the list and see if
> it's anything I need to be worried about.  I am running IOS
> 12.4(15)T1...
>
>
> --- Howard Leadmon
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