Hello everyone,
we have a bunch of ISR 4431 running universalk9.03.16.04b.S.155-3.S4b-ext with no load at all. We have a big problem with memory utilization (As always, CPU and Memory management is one the biggest problems with Cisco softwares).
Here is the output of different commands. That would be great if you could give us a hand:
Router#show processes memory sorted
Processor Pool Total: 1688360784 Used: 264057808 Free: 1424302976
lsmpi_io Pool Total: 6295128 Used: 6294296 Free: 832
PID TTY Allocated Freed Holding Getbufs Retbufs Process
0 0 353660936 108857696 227620776 0 0 *Init*
79 0 533775128 302040 7594720 0 0 IOSD ipc task
389 0 3889216 5160 3926048 799092 0 EEM ED Syslog
0 0 847546560 844385288 3117360 8177103 0 *Dead*
409 0 1438984 26792 1442056 0 0 EEM Server
155 0 3218992 91360 1053512 0 0 CWAN OIR Handler
185 0 1036624 66816 1023520 0 0 IP ARP Adjacency
1 0 789776 0 819640 0 0 Chunk Manager
6 0 522608 21808 461360 0 0 RF Slave Main Th
390 0 376128 5160 412832 67468 0 EEM ED Generic
0 0 0 0 395592 0 0 *MallocLite*
162 0 2397163680 1496916312 381456 0 0 CDP Protocol
189 0 614472 339384 250592 0 0 mDNS
277 0 1808 0 247672 0 0 COPS
508 0 167720 448 221136 0 0 MRIB Process
10 0 19150047736 19150089016 215080 18311499785 18311529513 Pool Manager
15 0 20955311736 20955132000 195336 0 0 ARP Input
374 0 1349008 1199016 194168 0 0 Crypto CA
334 0 153800 448 183216 0 0 RUDPV1 Main Proc
271 0 130168 3216 180968 0 0 IP RIB Update
What is the problem with this devices? Holding memory? Or maybe Getbufs/ Retbufs?
Another command:
Router#show platform software status control-processor brief
Load Average
Slot Status 1-Min 5-Min 15-Min
RP0 Healthy 0.98 0.58 0.25
Memory (kB)
Slot Status Total Used (Pct) Free (Pct) Committed (Pct)
RP0 Healthy 3965680 3678204 (93%) 287476 ( 7%) 1739072 (44%)
CPU Utilization
Slot CPU User System Nice Idle IRQ SIRQ IOwait
RP0 0 1.70 0.80 0.00 97.49 0.00 0.00 0.00
1 2.00 3.00 0.00 95.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
2 0.70 9.20 0.00 90.10 0.00 0.00 0.00
3 1.10 0.50 0.00 98.40 0.00 0.00 0.00
4 0.10 0.50 0.00 99.40 0.00 0.00 0.00
5 0.30 0.20 0.00 99.50 0.00 0.00 0.00
6 1.20 0.40 0.00 98.40 0.00 0.00 0.00
7 0.30 0.30 0.00 99.39 0.00 0.00 0.00These routers are truley important so we are not allowes to upgrade them to any tricky/buggy version. We are also on RTU license and switching to Cisco One is another challenge. So, if you recommend an upgrade please think about the consideration.
***If someone from Cisco read this topic:
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
simplify licensing and donwloading/ upgrading your products. Out troubles are getting bigger everyday and those centralized mindsets are not compatible with complex scenarios. We purchase a product, so then we need the upgrades as simple as possible. Why you need different kinds of accounts and contracts? It's just an obstacle
