[c-nsp] %IPC-5-WATERMARK: What is this?

[Max Clark]

Thanks for the response. I did find this information on Cisco's site
and fortunately we had not seen any MALLOCFAIL errors. The box in
question has already been updated so hopefully this will not re-occur.

-Max

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 2:49 PM, e ninja <eninja at gmail.com> wrote:
> Max,
>
> Ignore my last post. Are there any mallocfails? if yes, this might be as a
> result a memory leak in the IPC buffer addressed in CSCek64188 resolved in
> 12.2(18)SXF8.
>
> -----
>
>
> CSCek64188
>
>  Symptoms: An error message indicating memory leak and pending transmission
> for IPC messages is displayed as follows:
>  *Dec 3 01:31:31.792: %IPC-5-WATERMARK: 25642 messages pending in xmt for
> the port
> Primary RFS Server Port(10000.C) from source seat 2150000
>
>
>  *Dec 3 01:32:01.489: %SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 4268 bytes
> failed from
> 0x9F32944, alignment 32
>
>
>
>  Conditions: This issue is triggered by CSCeb05456 and is applicable only if
> your Cisco IOS image has integrated the fix of CSCeb05456.
>
>  Workaround: Periodically, reload the router so that the IPC buffer pool
> will be reinitialized. ------
>
> Note that your current IOS image has the fix for CSCeb05456 (fixed in
> 12.2(18)SXF1 - the trigger for this issue
>
>
> /eninja
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 2:16 PM, e ninja <eninja at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Max,
> >
> > This is a sev 5 notification message. As such, it is nothing to be worried
> about. From cco....
> >
> >
> >
> > Error Message   IPC-5-WATERMARK: [dec] messages pending in [hex] for the
> port [chars] [hex].[hex]
> >
> >
> > Explanation   This message indicates that a particular IPC port is
> overused. An application is not draining packets quickly, which suggests
> that the CPU is very busy. [dec] is the number of messages pending in the
> IPC to be processed by the application. [chars] is the IPC port name. The
> first [hex] is the IPC port number, the second [hex] is the IPC seat number,
> and the third [hex] is the IPC index.
> >
> > Recommended Action   No action is required.
> > /eninja
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Max Clark <max.clark at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > %IPC-5-WATERMARK: 1627 messages pending in xmt for the port Primary
> > > RFS Server Port(10000.A) seat 10000
> > >
> > > I have not found a good explaination for what this is, what causes it,
> > > and how to resolve it - or if it's even something to be concerned
> > > about. Can anyone share some more information for what this is?
> > >
> > > This is from a 6509 Sup 720 3BXL running
> > > s72033-adventerprisek9_wan-mz.122-18.SXF3.bin.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Max
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