<div>Hi,</div> <div> </div> <div>I have an extreme switch Summit 400-24p. I am running port-mirroring for two ports on tthe switch. I need to check what impact does it make on the CPU when i run port mirroring for a said number of ports?</div> <div> </div> <div>The show version output is as follows:</div> <div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div> <div>Extreme switch:32 # show version </div> <div>System Serial Number: <BR>CPU board: 8S40524P3A1 P12236889 CP1: 4 CP2: 06<BR>Image : Extremeware Version 7.5e.2.8 [non-ssh] by Release_Master on 03/08/06 03:53:37</div> <div>BootROM : 5.1</div> <div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>Also when i run "top" command the output is as follows:</div>
<div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div> <div>top<BR>Total number of tasks: 72<BR>Task Name Task Id Task PC Status % CPU Max % util<BR>===================================================</div> <div>Press 'h' for help <BR>tBGTask 0b49fcf8 00b40a24 READY 99 99 <BR>tExcTask 0effdeb8 00b4daa4 PEND 0 0 <BR>tLogTask 0effb530 00b4daa4 PEND 0 0 <BR>tShell 0efe8e18 00b0e150 SUSPEND 0 0 <BR>bcmDPC 0ee18de0 00b3c51c PEND 0 0 <BR>bcmCNTR.0 0ecf32a0 00b3c51c PEND+T 0 0 <BR>bcmTX 0ecd0ce8 00b3c51c PEND 0 0 <BR>bcmCNTR.1 0e8d9150 00b3c51c PEND+T 0 0 <BR>bcmCNTR.2 0e88bd28 00b3c51c PEND+T 0 0<BR>tSlowTimer 0e27f060 00b4daa4 PEND 0 1<BR>tFastTimer 0e24ce48 00b4daa4 PEND 0 0 <BR>tTimeout 0e2a1288 00b4daa4 PEND 0 0<BR>tEMSOutput 0e28b078 00b4daa4 PEND 0 0<BR>tEMSFilter 0e288e60 00b4daa4 PEND+T 0 0<BR>tledPollTa 0e285b70 00b4daa4 PEND 0 1<BR>tFdbAgeTas 0df0ada8 00b4daa4 PEND 0 0<BR>tFdbMacLoc 0df063d8 00b4daa4 PEND 0 0<BR>tipFdbAgeT
0df01ad0 00b4daa4 PEND 0 0<BR>tipsubFdbA 0defd1c8 00b4daa4 PEND 0 0<BR>tFdbSyncTa 0def8f88 00b3ffa4 SUSPEND 0 </div> <div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div> <div> </div> <div>Can some one point out how can i find cpu statistics on the extreme summit switch when we run port-mirroring ? And also how much load does port-mirroring make on the switch? Is there any forecasting or dimensioning done for this ?</div> <div> </div> <div>regards,</div> <div>HA</div><p> 
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