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How to recover memory taken up by *Dead* Process

asaykao73
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Hi There,

We're hitting about 95% memory utilization and it appears most of it is being consume by *Dead* processes (see below).

Is there some way to recover the memory being used up by the *Dead* processes or will we have to reboot the router?

RTR-01#sh proc memory sorted

Processor Pool Total:  133318240  Used:  127600908 Free:    5717332

     I/O Pool Total:   40893952 Used:    13781152 Free:   27112800

PID TTY  Allocated       Freed    Holding    Getbufs    Retbufs Process

  0   0  151244900   52146784    99991348     554104          0 *Dead*

  0   0   63691228   22433984    36948272          0          0 *Init*

139   0  129059308  128081536      932496      24948          0 HTTP CORE

192   0     304768      34984      275612          0          0 IPSEC key engine

188   0     115776       3764      137384          0          0 Crypto ACL

133   0     136472        196      135296          0          0 DHCPD Receive

170   0     118884        472      127392          0          0 Crypto WUI

181   0      88248          0       95228          0          0 QOS_MODULE_MAIN

  4   0      65588          0       90568          0          0 EDDRI_MAIN

113   0      67384          0       77364          0          0 IP RIB Update

116   0      73340          0       73340          0          0 CEF process

179   0        940          0       61920          0          0 http client proc

157   0      44876        196       51660          0          0 CCVPM_HDSPRM

74 450     116092      82560       46124          0          0 SSH Process

195   0      24912          0       37892          0          0 Crypto Delete Ma

172   0      26180          0       36160          0          0 CCVPM_HTSP

36   0    3799060        780       35744       5388          0 Net Background

  6   0   32526052   46627708       35684   25629576   32805804 Pool Manager

60   0      27448        196       34232          0          0 VNM DSPRM MAIN

RTR-01#sh  ver

Cisco IOS Software, 3800 Software (C3845-ADVIPSERVICESK9-M), Version  12.4(3e), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)

Technical Support:

http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

Copyright (c) 1986-2006  by Cisco Systems, Inc.

Compiled Wed 14-Jun-06 01:49 by  alnguyen

ROM: System Bootstrap,  Version 12.3(11r)T2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

RTR-01  uptime is 20 weeks, 1 day, 18 hours, 26 minutes

System returned to ROM by  power-on

System restarted at 17:17:23 AEDT Mon Mar 26 2012

System image  file is "flash:c3845-advipservicesk9-mz.124-3e.bin"

Thanks.

Andy

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