[c-nsp] ISR4431 memory usage

Wed Jun 1 18:05:20 EDT 2016

Thanks Chuck - Yes, from my experience on the ASR1K's the iosd does consume a lot of ram...dont have access to one atm, but I dont recall them using as much as these ISR4431's (With pretty much base conf on them)

sh mem fyr on the 4431

sh mem
                Head    Total(b)     Used(b)     Free(b)   Lowest(b)  Largest(b)
Processor  7F350775C010   1727628752   295329344   1432299408   678975912   1048575908
 lsmpi_io  7F350705A1A8     6295128     6294304         824         824         412
Dynamic heap limit(MB) 1000      Use(MB) 0

I could probably try and squeeze in a full table on the 4431, but it's looking like 8Gb might be needed to safely do so?

Cheers

________________________________________
From: Chuck Church <chuckchurch at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 1 June 2016 10:09 PM
To: 'CiscoNSP List'; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: RE: [c-nsp] ISR4431 memory usage

Isn't that normal, for the linux kernel to give most of the RAM to IOSD?
>From inside IOSD is where you need to be concerned.  What does the
traditional 'show mem' tell you, the first few lines?  The 'free' and
'largest' columns are what you are looking for.

Chuck

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Subject: [c-nsp] ISR4431 memory usage

Hi Everyone,

Purchased a couple of ISR4431's for a small POP,  that has a single
IPTransit service (Currently being handled by an old 2851, taking full table
and default)....obviously full table not necessary, but we had a customer at
this POP that wanted the full table advertised to them, so we needed to take
it from the upstream.

2851 handles the full table no problems - only has 1Gb dram, and is using
~57% ram

The 4431's we purchased to replace the 2851 have (default) 4Gb ram, and I
was a little shocked when I turned them on to see that with virtually no
config on them, they are already using ~83-84% of the ram:

#show platform software status control-processor brief Load Average  Slot
Status  1-Min  5-Min 15-Min
  RP0 Healthy   0.00   0.00   0.00

Memory (kB)
 Slot  Status    Total     Used (Pct)     Free (Pct) Committed (Pct)
  RP0 Healthy  3972052  3317944 (84%)   654108 (16%)   1530296 (39%)

sh platform resources
**State Acronym: H - Healthy, W - Warning, C - Critical
Resource                 Usage                 Max             Warning
Critical        State
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------
RP0 (ok, active)
H
 Control Processor       5.81%                 100%            90%
95%             H
  DRAM                   3240MB(83%)           3878MB          90%
95%             H
ESP0(ok, active)
H
 QFP
H
  DRAM                   1609582KB(76%)        2097152KB       80%
90%             H
  IRAM                   0KB(0%)               0KB             80%
90%             H

..and iosd looks to be the main user:

#monitor platform software process rp active

top - 09:59:58 up 7 days, 23:38,  0 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 380 total,   4 running, 376 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.7%us,  1.7%sy,  0.0%ni, 97.6%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
0.0%st
Mem:   3972052k total,  3324360k used,   647692k free,   211736k buffers
Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,  1705968k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
30505 root      20   0 9830m 161m 113m R   10  4.2   1226:27 fman_fp_image
23117 root      20   0 2205m 709m 341m S    3 18.3 258:15.06 linux_iosd-imag
20408 root      20   0  288m  73m  30m S    2  1.9 192:48.66 bsm
 2142 root      20   0 72468  24m  18m S    1  0.6  69:33.01 iomd

...Now, my question is, can we "safely" take the full table on the
4431's...Ive had a read of the following:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/access/4400/troubleshooting/mem
orytroubleshooting/isr4000_mem.html

And it mentions that iosd/memory allocation is allocated as "needed"...but
Im not clear on whether the way the platform allocates memory, will allow us
to take a full table with 4Gb ram.....Im really hoping it will, and we dont
have to upgrade the ram on them?

Cheers.

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n/us/td/docs/routers/access/4400/troubleshooting/memorytroubleshooting/isr40
00_mem.html>

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