[f-nsp] Current Total Free Memory [...] is below 5 percent of Installed Memory.

Matt Kassawara mkassawara at gmail.com
Wed Dec 14 13:06:04 EST 2011


Are you sure that message reflects TCAM and not general DRAM?
Profiles aside, I believe MLX line cards contain 36 MB of TCAM... and
~22 MB free seems much more than 5%.  What's the output of "show
cam-partition usage" ?

2011/12/14 Franz Georg Köhler <lists at openunix.de>:
> Hello,
>
> I am currently seeing a lot of those messages on a MLX:
>
> WARN: Current Total Free Memory (22589440) on LP 1 is below 5 percent of Installed Memory.
>
> Since the RAM usage seems to remain stable at 96% on this line card, I wonder if:
>
> - it is generally considered to be save to run the LP modules at 4% of free memory
> - if so: can logging be configured to print warnings at another treshhold?
>  I could only find such a configuration directive for the CAM memory
>  ("cam-partition logging").
>
>
>
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