[c-nsp] Memory leak on in latest 12.0S on GSR?

Sascha Pollok nsp-list at pollok.net
Thu Jun 2 13:15:32 EDT 2011


Hello Mack,

thanks for your e-mail.

> These occur due to memory leaks in the BGP process.
> Disabled BGP sessions can cause memory leakage and the type of CPU issues you are seeing.

there are currently none on this box.

> Solution is upgrade to latest 12.0(33)S train.

The PRP-1 is on 12.0(33)S7. Quite new I guess.

> Work around is periodic reloads and eliminating down/shutdown bgp sessions.
> I am sure there are other bugs but not sure what all of them are.

So I guess I am more likely hitting one of those other bugs :-(

Thanks anyway
Sascha

> Mack McBride
> Network Architect
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Sascha Pollok
> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 9:28 AM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] Memory leak on in latest 12.0S on GSR?
>
> Hello people,
>
> before I dig too much into it, I wanted to ask whether
> anyone here as experienced sth similar. Is anyone aware
> of a memory leak on latest 12.0(33)S or 12.0(32)S releases
> for GSR? We see our graphs constantly going down and
> jump up again upon reload. Things that we see is right
> now around 100 MB Dead memory held and CPU Hogs during
> Check Heaps process execution (every few minutes).
>
> Anyone?
>
> Thank you
> Sascha
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