High Kernel and idle process utilization

[mahmoodmkl]

Hi

i see the output of show proc cpu

i can see that a process kernel and idle is taking around 85%.

please help.

Thanks

Mahmood

[smothuku]

Hi Mahmood ,

Are seeing high cpu utilization on switch or router..what is the platform.Can you paste show pro cpu output.

Thanks,

satish

[mahmoodmkl]

Hi Satish,

Thanks for replying.Actually i am having this issue on 4506's and even on 6509.To my surprise the switching and admin overhead is around 2 to 3 %.Any comments.

Thanks

Mahmood

[Lertsa]

I have kinda the same problem. At night when there isn't that much traffic in the network, the router's processor load is around 58% and when there is starting to be some traffic, the load rises up to 90%+. Occasionally when there's a bit too much traffic, the load goes up to 100% and the router stops answering for a while.

After wondering this for a while I came to conclusion that there is simply too much traffic for the router to handle. Sh processes cpu does show that the load is 90%+ but the processes use only about 20-30% altogether. Sorting the ACL's out helped a bit but seems like I need to change the routes to a routing switch lower the router load... The router is C3640, updating IOS didn't help at all.