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

[Gregory Boehnlein]

>   I just recently installed a new 7206VXR/NPE-G2 router, and looking at
> the logging output I am seeing the following:
> 
> 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

My completely non-expert opinion (and most likely wrong) on this is that it
appears as if your router is running out of memory. Malloc failures
generally occur when a router attempts to grab a chunk of memory for some
purpose and it cannot allocate the requested amount.

Are you running BGP and CEF on this? If so, what does your free memory look
like?