[c-nsp] IOS XR Process Exhausted

Nam NGUYEN namntj at gmail.com
Wed Jul 11 07:37:25 EDT 2012


Thanks alot for your quick and great answers!

Nam

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) <
oboehmer at cisco.com> wrote:

>
>
> > >> I have a few ASR9Ks used as PE routers. Due to customer's
> requirements, a
> > >> lot of VRFs are created, each contains one OSPF instance. It seems the
> > >> ASR9K has put a limit on the maximum number of OSPF processes.
> > >>
> > >> RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:Jul 11 09:17:26.081 UTC: placed[333]:
> > >> %OS-PLACED-3-PROCESS_EXHAUSTED : Exhausted all instances of placeable
> > >> process ospf possible
> > >>
> > >> Is there any way to know this limit? And how to change it?
> > >
> > > the number of OSPF processes is finite (max 10, but best to not exceed
> 4),
> > so please configure the VRF PE-CE routing instances within the same
> process
> > (which is different from IOS where you would set up distinct "router ospf
> > ..." per vrf). A common deployment is to use two processes: One as the
> core
> > IGP, and one for all VRFs.
> > >
>
> > Hi Oil, this is not because of the MPLS/VPN number limitation?
>
> no, this has nothing to do with VPN license or the like.. we just don't
> support a very high number of distinct OSPF processes, and achieve the
> required VRF PE-CE scalability differently..
>
>         oli
>
>


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Nam Nguyen


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