[j-nsp] J2320 running 11.4R10.3 facing memory allocation issue and flowd_hm process high

[thiyagarajan b]

Hi,

J2320 router running 11.4R10.3 is facing memory allocation issue and
flow_hm process is high. Currently have 1.5G DRAM and 1G flash, finding
Wired memory is consuming the max with ~750MB of DRAM. Finding the below
logs in the router.



R-1> show system processes extensive
last pid: 2362; load averages: 0.21, 0.20, 0.21 up 0+09:43:29 16:46:45
145 processes: 2 running, 125 sleeping, 18 waiting

Mem: 266M Active, 103M Inact, 730M Wired, 192M Cache, 69M Buf, 204M Free
Swap:


PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND
11 root 1 171 52 0K 12K RUN 416:10 77.93% idle
1171 root 1 105 0 704M 606M select 124:16 14.60% flowd_hm

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show log messages[image: Smiley Embarassed]>



R-1 fwdd[1171]: NH: Failed to find nh (71548) for deletion

R-1 /kernel: RT_PFE: NH IPC op 11 (DELETE NEXTHOP) failed, err 7 (Doesn't
Exist) peer_class 0, peer_index 0 peer_type 10

R-1 /kernel: Process with Most Children- 0:swapper - Children - 60

R-1 /kernel: nearing maxproc limit by uid 0, please see tuning(7) and
login.conf(5)

R-1 fwdd[1171]: NH(mtj_nh_ucast_install): Failed addition (67868:Unicast,
2) during index allocation (memory allocation failure)

R-1 fwdd[1171]: Failed to create platform state for nh (67868), memory
allocation failure

R-1 fwdd[1171]: Failed to install in platform, memory allocation failure
for NH (67868)

R-1 fwdd[1171]: Type specific Add failed memory allocation failure
nh-id:67868



While initiating ping we are finding the below logs:



R-1> ping 4.2.2.2
could not create child process

R-1>



Regards.