[c-nsp] memory issue asr1002-x

[James Bensley]

On 22 November 2017 at 09:17, Christian Kratzer <ck-lists at cksoft.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, James Bensley wrote:
>> I believe that the IOSd process is a 32-bit process so it can't use
>> more than 4GBs of RAM.
>
>
> does not look like it on this box:
>
> Router#show version | i mem
> cisco ASR1001 (1RU) processor with 6848986K/6147K bytes of memory.
> 32768K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
> 16777216K bytes of physical memory.
> Router#

Looks like you are right.

I OP has an ASR1002-X, check one here:

#show ver | inc mem
cisco ASR1002-X (2RU-X) processor (revision 2KP) with 3729028K/6147K
bytes of memory.
...
8388608K bytes of physical memory.


^ This only has 8GB of RAM and it is using roughly half as expected.


Although not using half isn't exactly a bad sign in its self, the
Linux virtual memory manager allows for memory overcommit:

#show platform software status control-processor
Memory (kb): healthy
  Total: 8091848
  Used: 3885636 (48%)
  Free: 4206212 (52%)
  Committed: 5328504 (66%), status: healthy, under 95%

So it maybe that IOSd on OP's system would simply grow more when needed?

Cheers,
James.