[j-nsp] Need suggestions..

[Kevin Wormington]

I think cleupon has some 3rd party modules that are known to work. 
Running 9.6 mine looks as follows with 128M on the CFEB:

show chassis cfeb
CFEB status:
   State                                 Online
   Intake temperature                 14 degrees C / 57 degrees F
   Exhaust temperature                20 degrees C / 68 degrees F
   CPU utilization                     6 percent
   Interrupt utilization               0 percent
   Heap utilization                   42 percent
   Buffer utilization                 26 percent
   Total CPU DRAM                    128 MB
   Internet Processor II                 Version 2, Foundry IBM, Part 
number 164
   Start time:                           2009-10-02 20:24:57 CDT
   Uptime:                               124 days, 17 hours, 58 minutes, 
58 seconds


CSBR0(m7ino2 vty)# show jtree 0 memory
Memory Statistics:
     8388608 bytes total (2 banks)
     4675952 bytes used
     3712656 bytes free
        8128 pages total
        4556 pages used
        3572 pages free
          31 max freelist size

Free Blocks:
  Size(b)    Total(b)        Free       TFree       Alloc
--------  ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
        8     3267272        2483           1      405925
       16     1165904         328           0       72541
       24         504           1           0          20
       32         384          10           0           2
       40           0           0           0           0
       48           0           0           0           0
       56           0           0           0           0
       64         128           1           0           1
       72           0           0           0           0
       80           0           0           0           0
       88           0           0           0           0
       96           0           0           0           0
      104           0           0           0           0
    Total     4434192

Context: 0xbb0480


Brendan Mannella wrote:
> I just looked and mine is only 128M on the CFEB.
> 
> As with the RE, is there a third party memory upgrade that could be bought?
> Part Numbers welcome.
> 
> Brendan
> 
> 
> On 2/4/10 12:53 PM, "sthaug at nethelp.no" <sthaug at nethelp.no> wrote:
> 
>>> Sounds like we'll need the RE-850 if we want to take more than our 2 full
>>> feeds 
>>> though -- although others have said we may run out of CFEB RAM first?  Excuse
>>> the newbie question, but what is the CFEB RAM used for -- we have one router
>>> with one full feed and the CFEB is at 42% RAM, another with two full feeds
>>> and 
>>> the CFEB is at 42% also...
>> The CFEB memory utilization you get from "show chassis cfeb", e.g.
>>
>> CFEB status:
>>   State                                 Online
>>   Intake temperature                 39 degrees C / 102 degrees F
>>   Exhaust temperature                46 degrees C / 114 degrees F
>>   CPU utilization                    11 percent
>>   Interrupt utilization               0 percent
>>   Heap utilization                   26 percent
>>   Buffer utilization                 27 percent
>>   Total CPU DRAM                    256 MB
>>
>> is only part of the story. This shows the DRAM memory on the CFEB,
>> which is used for the operating system kernel running there, a copy
>> of the RIB, and some other stuff.
>>
>> What is equally important is the high speed memory used for packet
>> pushing (static RAM for the traditional CFEB), which is a rather
>> small amount, and which you only see if you login to the CFEB and
>> use the "show jtree 0 memory" command. E.g.:
>>
>> CSBR0(ar1.xxx vty)# show jtree 0 memory
>> Memory Statistics:
>>     8388608 bytes total (2 banks)
>>     5017384 bytes used
>>     3371224 bytes free
>>        8128 pages total
>>        4876 pages used
>>        3252 pages free
>>          31 max freelist size
>>
>> This memory holds the FIB, nexthops and similar stuff.
>>
>> Notice only *8 Megabytes* total, and about 60% of this memory in use
>> in the example above. If you run out of *this* memory, your box is in
>> real trouble.
>>
>> The "plain old" M7i/M10i CFEB comes with 128 MBytes of CFEB DRAM,
>> which can be upgraded to 256 MBytes. 256 MBytes is mentioned as a
>> requirement for JunOS 9.x.
>>
>> The CFEB SRAM cannot be upgraded (but you can buy a new enhanced
>> CFEB instead...)
>>
>> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no
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