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

[Howard Leadmon]

The sucker should have more RAM than it knows what to do with..   *smiles*

>sho proc mem
Processor Pool Total: 1898778796 Used:  240963296 Free: 1657815500
      I/O Pool Total:   67108864 Used:    5887264 Free:   61221600
Transient Pool Total:   16777216 Used:      18372 Free:   16758844


Unless there is some allocation for CEF that needs to be set..



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Howard Leadmon 


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> From: Hyunseog Ryu [mailto:r.hyunseog at ieee.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:22 AM
> To: Howard Leadmon
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Has anyone run into this error: %SYS-4-CHUNKMALLOCFAIL
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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:
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> > .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
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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