[c-nsp] ASR1000 - Software Redundancy

[Antonio Soares]

Here's how to do it (asr1004):

conf t
platform shell
end

request platform software system shell rp active

Then you have Linux :)


Regards,

Antonio Soares, CCIE #18473 (R&S/SP)
amsoares at netcabo.pt
http://www.ccie18473.net



-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Kratzer [mailto:ck at cksoft.de] 
Sent: quarta-feira, 1 de Fevereiro de 2012 14:08
To: Antonio Soares
Cc: mtinka at globaltransit.net; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: RE: [c-nsp] ASR1000 - Software Redundancy

Hi,

On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Antonio Soares wrote:

> Can you open a shell and do a top so we can see the memory consumption ?

if you tell me how to ?

Greetings
Christian


>
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio Soares, CCIE #18473 (R&S/SP)
> amsoares at netcabo.pt
> http://www.ccie18473.net
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Kratzer [mailto:ck-lists at cksoft.de]
> Sent: quarta-feira, 1 de Fevereiro de 2012 13:29
> To: Antonio Soares
> Cc: mtinka at globaltransit.net; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] ASR1000 - Software Redundancy
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Antonio Soares wrote:
>
>> Yes, lesson learned, no software redundancy at least with the RP1 which
>> memory maximum is 4GB which means 700MB usable...
>>
>> In the meanwhile, I saw that it's possible to switch to the underlying OS
>> and we can do linux commands like top:
>>
>> top - 03:50:16 up 12:22,  0 users,  load average: 0.21, 0.13, 0.09
>> Tasks: 136 total,   2 running, 134 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
>> Cpu(s):  1.0%us,  2.6%sy,  0.0%ni, 96.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.3%hi,  0.0%si,
>> 0.0%st
>> Mem:   3874968k total,  1707248k used,  2167720k free,   127152k buffers
>> Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,  1075788k cached
>>
>>  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>>
>> 25147 root      20   0 26784  14m  12m S  1.3  0.4   6:40.53 imand
>>
>> 23063 root      20   0 28008  10m 8136 S  1.0  0.3   4:51.46 cmand
>>
>> 25922 root      20   0 1916m 403m 142m R  0.7 10.7   9:42.53
> linux_iosd-imag
>> (...)
>>
>> We see lots of free memory so I suspect we can change the default values
>> that IOSd is able to allocate.
>
> if you search the archives there have been several threads on asr1k memory
> usage:
>
> following posting claims that the memory allocated to ios is currently not
> configurable:
>
>   https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/2011-August/080691.html
>
> All this still does not explain following on a pair of asr1001 boxes
>
>   cisco ASR1001 (1RU) processor with 1207124K/6147K bytes of memory.
>   9 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
>   32768K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
>   4194304K bytes of physical memory.
>   7782399K bytes of eUSB flash at bootflash:.
>
> this is explicitly without any software redundancy and the IOS still only
> sees 1G of the potential 2G it should bee seeing.
>
> Greetings
> Christian
>
>

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