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3550 Errors

wildker
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What could be a reason of following messages:

12-29-2005 13:59:49 Local7.Critical 172.30.0.54 2564: -Traceback= 1A57D0

1A6DF4 161B3C 1B2BF0 1B2D60 1C6440

12-29-2005 13:59:49 Local7.Critical 172.30.0.54 2563: -Process= "Pool

Manager", ipl= 0, pid= 5

12-29-2005 13:59:49 Local7.Critical 172.30.0.54 2562:

12-29-2005 13:59:49 Local7.Critical 172.30.0.54 2561: Alternate Pool: None

Free: 0 Cause: No Alternate pool

12-29-2005 13:59:49 Local7.Critical 172.30.0.54 2560: Pool: I/O Free: 3412

Cause: Memory fragmentation

12-29-2005 13:59:49 Local7.Critical 172.30.0.54 2559: 1y26w:

%SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 1680 bytes failed from 0x161B38,

alignment 0

12-29-2005 13:59:19 Local7.Critical 172.30.0.54 2558: -Traceback= 1A57D0

1A6DF4 161B3C 1B2BF0 1B2D60 1C6440

12-29-2005 13:59:19 Local7.Critical 172.30.0.54 2557: -Process= "Pool

Manager", ipl= 0, pid= 5

12-29-2005 13:59:19 Local7.Critical 172.30.0.54 2556:

12-29-2005 13:59:19 Local7.Critical 172.30.0.54 2555: Alternate Pool: None

Free: 0 Cause: No Alternate pool

12-29-2005 13:59:19 Local7.Critical 172.30.0.54 2554: Pool: I/O Free: 3412

Cause: Memory fragmentation

12-29-2005 13:59:19 Local7.Critical 172.30.0.54 2553: 1y26w:

%SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 1680 bytes failed from 0x161B38,

alignment 0

#sh ver

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software

IOS (tm) C3550 Software (C3550-I9Q3L2-M), Version 12.1(13)EA1a, RELEASE

SOFTWARE (fc1)

Copyright (c) 1986-2003 by cisco Systems, Inc.

Compiled Tue 25-Mar-03 23:21 by yenanh

Image text-base: 0x00003000, data-base: 0x00654C9C

ROM: Bootstrap program is C3550 boot loader

cat3550-BM24 uptime is 1 year, 26 weeks, 4 days, 2 hours, 12 minutes

System returned to ROM by power-on

System image file is

"flash:/c3550-i9q3l2-mz.121-13.EA1a/c3550-i9q3l2-mz.121-13.EA1a.bin"

cisco WS-C3550-24 (PowerPC) processor (revision J0) with 65526K/8192K bytes

of memory.

Processor board ID CAT0725X07R

Last reset from warm-reset

Running Layer2/3 Switching Image

Ethernet-controller 1 has 12 Fast Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interfaces

Ethernet-controller 2 has 12 Fast Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interfaces

Ethernet-controller 3 has 1 Gigabit Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface

Ethernet-controller 4 has 1 Gigabit Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface

24 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)

2 Gigabit Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)

The password-recovery mechanism is enabled.

384K bytes of flash-simulated non-volatile configuration memory.

Base ethernet MAC Address: 00:0D:29:73:85:80

Motherboard assembly number: 73-5700-10

Power supply part number: 34-0966-02

Motherboard serial number: CAT07240GNM

Power supply serial number: DTH072301KM

Model revision number: J0

Motherboard revision number: A0

Model number: WS-C3550-24-SMI

System serial number: CAT0725X07R

Configuration register is 0x10F

3 Replies 3

Have you got STP loops in the network? We had a similar issue last year where an undetected loop in the network brought everything down. There was so much traffic the 3550's couldn't handle it and reported the error.

We 'worked' around the issue with the customer by reducing the number of VLAN's trunked everywhere. We also upgraded the IOS to 12.1(20)EA6, although I don't think the IOS upgrade was the fix.

HTH

Andy

balajitvk
Level 8
Level 8

Hi!

MALLOCFAIL - Memory Allocation Failure.

Go thro. this document that will detail abt this,

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/63/mallocfail.shtml#pool

m.mcconnell
Level 5
Level 5

The MALLOC errors are usually fixed by doing an IOS upgrade. Get the latest version in the switch and reboot.

-Mark