[c-nsp] c6500 process memory

[Mack McBride]

Depending on specific code revision it may require a reboot.
Some code revs are worse than others.


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-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of james list
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2016 2:15 AM
To: Paul
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Subject: Re: [c-nsp] c6500 process memory

Correct, it's SUP720, in my idea I'd like to offload the bgp prefixes received by my upstream, in this way I expect BGP process should release some memory, right ?

Cheers
James

2016-07-01 0:47 GMT+02:00 Paul <paul at globo.tech>:

> I assume it's a sup720, there's nothing you can do. Make sure you stay
> on the old code train SXI or SXJ and that's about it.
>
> Eventually it will run out of ram before it runs out of tcam space
> (bad design on their part i guess)
>
> Cisco could work around this by implementing compression or offloading
> some more processes to the SP but I doubt they have interest in
> reviving the old platform.
>
> 70% is nothing really, I wouldn't worry about it until it's over 95%
>
> On 6/30/2016 12:18 PM, james list wrote:
>
>> Dear experts,
>> just to ask if there are any guidance or best practice about process
>> memory utilization, currently on my C6500 I'm at 70% usage and would
>> like to know if I need to be alterted or not...
>>
>> I use this box for full routing table (BGP process is the higher
>> memory user)...
>>
>> Kind regards
>> James
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