[c-nsp] High memory utilization (Cat4500)

Yuri Bank yuribank at gmail.com
Sat Feb 18 17:11:43 EST 2012


Has anyone seen this before? I'm not sure if there is a memory leak in the
version of IOS that I'm using, but I've noticed that many of our switches
are at 75% memory utilization. The offending processes seem to be Tacacs
and httpd:

Processor Pool Total:  493563892 Used:  359511672 Free:  134052220

 PID TTY  Allocated      Freed    Holding    Getbufs    Retbufs Process
   0   0  124959460    4842872  110239660          0          0
*Init*
 142   0 1230497696  598936748  *109381056 *    145152          0
TPLUS
 115   0 1819351940 1718409236  *100978356 *         0          0 HTTP
CORE


TPLUS and HTTP_CORE are holding 100Mb each! What is also strange, is that
the http/https server is disabled in the config.


(cat4500-IPBASEK9-M), Version 12.2(46)SG1, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)


-Yuri


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