6509 error

[glen.grant]

     Seeing the following error and its unclear whether this a supervisor or it's telling

me the  card in slot 4 which has dfc cards on them is creating this error .  It's happening every minute or 2 .

Have run this thru the output interpreter and its pretty vague on what course of

action to take.  Have a feeling a reload is the only answer  but this is a huge ser

ver farm box so that will get some heat.  Usually fixing memory fragmentation is going to be a reload .  Any other ideas appreciated.

Box running 12.2.18SXD7 .  Have checked for bugs but didn't see any that matched this type of issue.

Jan  6 13:13:14.826: %SYS-DFC4-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 744 bytes failed from 0x20315BBC, alignment
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Pool: Processor  Free: 968808  Cause: Memory fragmentation
Alternate Pool: None  Free: 0  Cause: No Alternate pool

-Process= "Pool Manager", ipl= 0, pid= 6
-Traceback= 2037F160 20382318 20315BC4 2031A18C 2031A2D0scp_fpoe_req: memory allocation error
scp_fpoe_req: memory allocation error
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[Jerry Ye]

Hi Glen,

It is caused by memory leak. I guess it is time to upgrade since SXD7 is very old.

Can you post the output of show ver?

Regards,

jerry

[Talha Ansari]

It is possibly by memory leak as jeye suggested... by the logs it seems that the processor pool has starved out.. you may check the memory utilization by the command "sh proc mem sort"... probably you would notice that the processor pool has very less free memory.

You may reload the device and this would temporarily solve the problem. Best would be to upgrade to a later version of IOS.