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OSPF Commands Super Slow - ASR1002-X

Bradley Sakdol
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ASR1002-X

Cisco IOS XE Software, Version 03.13.05.S - Extended Support Release

The problem I am seeing is that anytime I run a "show ip ospf [anything]" command, it takes an extremely long time to load each entry. For example, when I run "show ip ospf neighbor", it takes ~51 seconds to list my three ospf neighbors (~17 seconds to list each neighbor). Any header information for the command displays instantly. This goes for any related commands. However, I don't see this with any other show command. Currently, there are roughly 300 prefixes in the OSPF database, all in area 0 (which we are migrating away from as quickly as possible). I verified the size of the database is not the cause of the problem when I set OSPF to "passive-interface default" and reduced the size of the database to 9 prefixes (redistributed routes). With no OSPF neighbors, "show ip ospf neighbor" was instant, as expected, but "show ip ospf database" still took ~17 seconds to display each line. Additionally, when the terminal window fills up and is waiting for input (space or return) to display more, if I break the command to return to the prompt, it takes just as long to display the prompt again as it does to display each line of the show command.

CPU and memory utilization don't seem to have any issues. The displayed output was gathered while commands were running (displayed are the top 15):

ROUTER#show proc cpu sorted
Load for five secs: 0%/0%; one minute: 1%; five minutes: 1%
Time source is NTP, 10:58:36.639 PST Sat Dec 10 2016

CPU utilization for five seconds: 0%/0%; one minute: 1%; five minutes: 1%
 PID Runtime(ms)     Invoked      uSecs   5Sec   1Min   5Min TTY Process
  96     1194959   123183987          9  0.07%  0.00%  0.00%   0 100ms check
 132     1140824    12320813         92  0.07%  0.01%  0.00%   0 Per-Second Jobs
 179     2474073   192239861         12  0.07%  0.02%  0.00%   0 VRRS Main thread
 194         118        1016        116  0.07%  0.00%  0.00%   2 SSH Process
 208    18503069  1521573849         12  0.07%  0.12%  0.13%   0 Ethernet Msec Ti
 241     3228536   382579698          8  0.07%  0.02%  0.00%   0 IPAM Manager
 286     1184057    31097558         38  0.07%  0.01%  0.00%   0 TCP Timer
   1           0          76          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Chunk Manager
   2      520742     2464137        211  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Load Meter
   3       78087     2663276         29  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 LACP Protocol
   4           0          16          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Retransmission o
   5           0           5          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 IPC ISSU Dispatc
   6           3          12        250  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 RF Slave Main Th
   7           0           1          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 EDDRI_MAIN
   8           0           1          0  0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 RO Notify Timers

ROUTER#show proc memory sorted
Load for five secs: 0%/0%; one minute: 1%; five minutes: 1%
Time source is NTP, 10:53:30.263 PST Sat Dec 10 2016

Processor Pool Total: 4839512432 Used:  727294376 Free: 4112218056
 lsmpi_io Pool Total:    6295128 Used:    6294296 Free:        832

 PID TTY  Allocated      Freed    Holding    Getbufs    Retbufs Process
   0   0  850624440  511028880  314723752          0          0 *Init*
 359   0  893916024  285573784  296081400          0          0 BGP Router
 579   0   34427376      51784   34751592          0          0 SBC main process
   0   0 23568134288 17045126880   27932728  978852307      42612 *Dead*
  76   0 3647343352 3209769912    8335216       2412      10452 IOSD ipc task
 157   0    8722512     134760    6460552          0          0 CWAN OIR Handler
 462   0    3904128       5160    3940832     849828          0 EEM ED Syslog
   1   0    2503480      71736    2487240          0          0 Chunk Manager
 442   0    2018688     273872    1736264       4824          0 Crypto IKEv2
 482   0    1444024      27688    1446200          0          0 EEM Server
 485   0 1259130320 1257068784    1394688          0          0 Archive Config
   0   0          0          0    1314200          0          0 *MallocLite*
 604   0  713794808  682674720    1255232          0          0 OSPF-1 Router
 275   0  806548152 2213504208    1110920       9648          0 IP RIB Update
 424   0     631096          0     672960          0          0 QOS_MODULE_MAIN


I've tried searching the release notes and caveats for this software version, but didn't see anything that would seem to indicate there was a problem related to the issue I am seeing, but I could've also missed something. Has anyone else ever seen this behavior or have any suggestions for troubleshooting the issue?

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Bradley,

check if 'ip ospf name-lookup' is enabled on your router. Temporarily disable it by issuing the command"

no ip ospf name-lookup

and check if the behavior persists.

The document below describes the issue in detail:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/open-shortest-path-first-ospf/28174-ospf-slow-response.html

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Bradley,

check if 'ip ospf name-lookup' is enabled on your router. Temporarily disable it by issuing the command"

no ip ospf name-lookup

and check if the behavior persists.

The document below describes the issue in detail:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/open-shortest-path-first-ospf/28174-ospf-slow-response.html

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