[c-nsp] Wr mem causes massive delay...

[Church, Charles]

This is a software based router, and 'wri mem' is very CPU intensive.  What does the CPU look like before the wri mem is done?  I don't think this is abnormal. 

Chuck 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Charles" <jonvoip at gmail.com>
To: <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>; <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 7:27 AM
Subject: [c-nsp] Wr mem causes massive delay...


> So, noticed something weird...
>
> Got a 2851 with 512MB or RAM... if I have a constant ping going thru the
> router and I write mem, the ping goes up by a factor of 5....
>
>
> Cisco 2851 (revision 53.50) with 507904K/16384K bytes of memory.
> Processor board ID FTX1345A0EY
> 2 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
> 51 Serial interfaces
> 6 Channelized/Clear T1/PRI ports
> 1 Virtual Private Network (VPN) Module
> 4 Voice FXS interfaces
> DRAM configuration is 64 bits wide with parity enabled.
> 239K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
> 126000K bytes of ATA CompactFlash (Read/Write)
>
>
>
>
> Reply from 172.16.2.11: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=60
> Reply from 172.16.2.11: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=60
> Reply from 172.16.2.11: bytes=32 time=133ms TTL=60
> Reply from 172.16.2.11: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=60
> Reply from 172.16.2.11: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=60
>
> So, is this normal?
>
>
>
> Jonathan