Insufficient NVRAM memory on 6509 switches

[denis.ivitchev]

Hello,

DFM 1.2 reports that several of our 6509 switches have insufficient NVRAM memory. After I telnet to one of the switches reported, and running sh ver command I see the following

NVRAM total: 512K

NVRAM used: 446K

NVRAM free: 66K

Then, I copied config file (sh config all) to my pc

to see the size of the config file and it's about 200K.

My question is, do we have a problem where NVRAM is badly fragmented and if yes what is the way to fix it?

Or is this normal behavior?

Thank you for any help.

Denis

[mchin345]

There's a bug in some versions of DFM in which Cat switches are incorrectly polled for memory stats.And also check the status by using following command.

switch> (enable) sh proc mem

Memory Used: 8887520

Free: 146030080

Total: 154917600

For more details : http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_white_paper09186a00800c9470.shtml

[colin10086]

If you look at the output of a show ver it will give you the amount of free nvram. It probably is as DFM is reporting.

Be default the switch saves the config in binary form which is much larger than text.

Try changing the config mode to text, although you will need to write mem to save the config unless you are running quite new code which has an auto-save feature.

[alagrawa]

Hi,

This issue is documented in bug CSCdt44296.

http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/onebug.pl?bugid=CSCdt44296

regards

-Alok