[c-nsp] buffer leak in 12.4(19)?

Alex Moya alexmoya at bellsouth.net
Mon Aug 4 16:30:43 EDT 2008


Should work fine.You could have a bad card

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 4, 2008, at 3:41 PM, "Adam Greene" <maillist at webjogger.net>  
wrote:

> Cisco 2811 (revision 53.51) with 245760K/16384K bytes of memory.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Moya"  
> <alexmoya at bellsouth.net>
> To: "Adam Greene" <maillist at webjogger.net>
> Cc: <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 2:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] buffer leak in 12.4(19)?
>
>
>> How much men does the router have on it?
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> On Aug 4, 2008, at 1:54 PM, "Adam Greene" <maillist at webjogger.net>   
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a 2811 router running Advanced IP Services 12.4(19) which  
>>> has  been acting funny.
>>>
>>> First issue I had was after inserting (2) WIC-1ADSL cards the   
>>> processor jumped to 99%. After shutting down the interfaces and   
>>> rebooting, the router went back to normal.
>>>
>>> Now the router is becoming intermittently inaccessible via  
>>> telnet,  while still passing traffic through its interfaces.
>>>
>>> Total interfaces on unit:
>>> (2) WIC-1DSU-T1-V2
>>> (2) WIC-1ADSL
>>> (1) NM-HDV2-1T1/E1 w/ (2) PVDM2-32 daughter cards
>>>
>>> The other thing we did recently is add the NM-HDV2-1T1/E1. Before   
>>> adding these cards, we never had an issue.
>>>
>>> Running a "show controller serial x/x/x" and a "show buffer"  
>>> through  the Output Interpreter, I am told:
>>>
>>> "WARNING: The interface Serial0/0/0 has reported 449 'overruns'.   
>>> This is because, the input rate exceeds the ability of the  
>>> receiver  to handle data .... Paste the output of the show buffer  
>>> command  output into the Output Interpreter to check whether the  
>>> buffers can  be tuned. "
>>>
>>> "ERROR: Since its last reload, this router has created or  
>>> maintained  a relatively large number of 'h2p1 buffers' yet still  
>>> has very few  free buffers. The above symptoms suggest that a  
>>> buffer leak has  occurred."
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if a buffer leak could be the source of the issue.   
>>> Maybe this wasn't a problem before the router had the new DSL  
>>> cards  and T1 network module, but now the new cards are claiming  
>>> too much  memory and the buffer leak is causing issues.
>>>
>>> We could try down or upgrading the IOS ....
>>>
>>> Thanks for advice,
>>> Adam
>>>
>>>
>>>
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