[j-nsp] J series users bitten by the massive memory useincrease with flow mode add, please file jtac cases.

[Christopher E. Brown]

On 7/21/2010 1:23 PM, Heath Jones wrote:
> Chris - Sorry I didnt realise the process had changed names and we are
> actually talking about the forwarding process itself. In that case, the
> only other thing I can think of right now is:
> When the forwarding process starts, it allocates the 400Mb+ for these
> tables. The question is if the forwarding process is making a decision
> based on the configuration *before* the point of memory allocation as to
> if the allocation is required.
>  
> This is what you need to know from Juniper engineers / dev team. It
> probably wasn't written that way, and if not it makes searching for
> configuration statements to achieve the goal pointless!!
> (It's highly unlikely that they coded deallocation functions for those
> structs. Much simpler to just restart a process..)
>  
> Please let me know how you go with this - its an interesting problem!



I have disabled and then re-started the process on a live router w/ packet mode config, no
change in use.