[c-nsp] 3550 IO memory fragmentation

[Jon Lewis]

Most of the 3550s, including the one that crashed, are running 
121-22.EA10b.  CSCdz51522 seems unlikely as there was nobody logged in 
making changes and nobody should have been making (and there are no logged 
signs of) physical changes to the network at the time of the event.

On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, David Freedman wrote:

> What release are you running? could it be CSCdz51522?
>
> Dave.
>
>
> Jon Lewis wrote:
>> We had a recent network event during which all of our 3550 access layer
>> switches started logging things like:
>>
>> %SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 1680 bytes failed from 0x17FC48,
>> alignment 0
>> Pool: I/O  Free: 5936  Cause: Memory fragmentation
>> Alternate Pool: None  Free: 0  Cause: No Alternate pool
>>
>> -Process= "Pool Manager", ipl= 0, pid= 5
>> -Traceback= 1C919C 1CA760 17FC4C 1DB43C 1DB658 1EBACC 1EF0FC
>>
>> A few minutes later, all was back to normal, though one 3550 did a
>> software forced crash / reload.
>>
>> Under normal circumstances, these switches have 4.5-5mb of free IO memory.
>>
>> This looks very similar to what was posted several years ago at
>>
>> http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t31947-catalysts-trouble.html
>>
>> Searching bug toolkit, I didn't find anything that looked relevant.  Has
>> anyone else run into this sort of thing with 12.1EA software or have an
>> idea what the cause/solutions might be?
>>
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