[c-nsp] Freeing up BGP memory?

Randy amps at djlab.com
Thu Dec 6 23:24:15 EST 2012


On 12/06/2012 12:03 pm, Michael Loftis wrote:
> It seemed to me that it holds onto the memory until at the very least
> that peer is reset/clear-ed, and might until a clear ip bgp * is
> issued.  We recently had a 6506 (same SUP IIRC) go OOM tailspin too.
>  The fault was mine, insufficient monitoring.  Had to remove soft
> reconfig and move some peers off of it.  (In my defense I wasnt the
> one who set any of this up so Ive been fixing what I can as I go)

Thanks you for your insight.  As it turns out, I one peer still needed 
to be cleared after checking out bgp summary more closely.  Once I 
cleared it memory usage dropped.

-- 
~Randy


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