Memory Fragmentation on 3745

[pbarman]

All of a sudden 3745 stopped processing and showed these errors when consoled in. Its memory fragmentation. IOS 12.2(15)T2. Anyone aware of an exact bug here?

%SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 276 bytes failed from 0x6049FF30, alignment 32

Pool: I/O Free: 448 Cause: Memory fragmentation

Alternate Pool: None Free: 0 Cause: No Alternate pool

-Process= "Pool Manager", ipl= 0, pid= 5

-Traceback= 60500CB4 6050190C 6049FF38 6050EE04 6050EF50RX bad buffer address 0x3FFFFFEF

RX bad buffer address 0x3FFFFFEF

RX bad buffer address 0x3FFFFFEF

RX bad buffer address 0x3FFFFFEF

RX bad buffer address 0x3FFFFFEF

%SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 276 bytes failed from 0x6049FF30, alignment 32

Pool: I/O Free: 448 Cause: Memory fragmentation

Alternate Pool: None Free: 0 Cause: No Alternate pool

-Process= "Pool Manager", ipl= 0, pid= 5

-Traceback= 60500CB4 6050190C 6049FF38 6050EE04 6050EF50

[deilert]

I was getting Malloc errors like this when I had a virus attack , try enabling ip accounting and ip route-cache flow and look for excess tradffic , could also be a memory leak . In either case a reload is needed.