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
