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show system resources> Current memory status: Severe Alert

mike.gill
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I have a couple of  9124e Blade switches that have Severe Alerts reported for the current memory status in the show system resources output as shown below. I'm guessing that the amount of memory free is a problem, but how can I resolve the issue? The Blade switches don't appear to be heavily utilized so how can I increase the amount of free memory?

Load average:   1 minute: 0.13   5 minutes: 0.11   15 minutes: 0.09

Processes   :   143 total, 1 running

CPU states  :   0.0% user,   1.0% kernel,   99.0% idle

Memory usage:    516128K total,    502064K used,     14064K free

Current memory status: Severe Alert

Load average:   1 minute: 0.52   5 minutes: 0.28   15 minutes: 0.12

Processes   :   143 total, 1 running

CPU states  :   0.0% user,   1.0% kernel,   99.0% idle

Memory usage:    516128K total,    501140K used,     14988K free

Current memory status: Severe Alert

I have the same question about an MDS 9513 SAN Director with a Minor Alert. However this does have some healthy usage numbers.

Load average:   1 minute: 3.38   5 minutes: 1.92   15 minutes: 1.25

Processes   :   177 total, 3 running

CPU states  :   70.1% user,   25.2% kernel,   4.7% idle

Memory usage:   1033004K total,    884860K used,    148144K free

Current memory status: Minor Alert

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Vu Phan
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Cisco Employee

The first two switches are fine.

The free memory is physica free memory

The used memory is included used+cache memory. Cache memory is reuseable

The third switch 9513, the load average is high. This is indicated there are sone processes using more CPU.

You can issue a support case to take a look at this.

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