cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
cancel
456
Views
0
Helpful
1
Replies

InsufficientFreeMemeory

davepeat2
Level 1
Level 1

How critical is an event message "InsufficientFreeMemory"? It is on several 2950 and, I think 2960 switches. it says 8.07 % is free. What can/should I delete to free more memory without bricking the switch?

Thanks in advance!

1 Accepted Solution

Accepted Solutions

Joe Clarke
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

This is one of those things that is best baselined. If you are not seeing any network issues (i.e. connectivity losses or performance problems), and you see a consistent amount of free memory, then you can probably just adjust the threshold to a lower value.

If, however, you do suspect some network issues, or the amount steadily decreases, it would be good to explore this with TAC, or LAN switching forum as you could have a memory leak, or you may be over-taxing the devices.

As for where the memory is going, show proc mem or show mem summ can tell you that.

View solution in original post

1 Reply 1

Joe Clarke
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

This is one of those things that is best baselined. If you are not seeing any network issues (i.e. connectivity losses or performance problems), and you see a consistent amount of free memory, then you can probably just adjust the threshold to a lower value.

If, however, you do suspect some network issues, or the amount steadily decreases, it would be good to explore this with TAC, or LAN switching forum as you could have a memory leak, or you may be over-taxing the devices.

As for where the memory is going, show proc mem or show mem summ can tell you that.

Review Cisco Networking for a $25 gift card