Hi,
during the upgrade procedure of a Cisco WS-C2960-48TC-L switch, from the IOS version c2960-lanbasek9-mz.150-2.SE4 to
c2960-lanbasek9-mz.150-2.SE5 i'm getting the following error message:
Dec 4 10:54:10.849: %SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 252160 bytes failed from 0xEE4D2C, alignment 0
Pool: Processor Free: 773516 Cause: Memory fragmentation
Alternate Pool: None Free: 0 Cause: No Alternate pool
-Process= "SSH Process", ipl= 0, pid= 180
-Traceback= E610A0z 1480398z 1486F74z 17C87A0z EE4D30z EE74F4z EE3914z 6009ECz 6042CCz 606150z DB3D74z DB9F94z DC95E0z 179525Cz 178C4A4z 14FB084z
and the upgrade procedure exits and leaves the switch in an inconsistent system state.
The DRAM requirements of the ios image are satisfied and i have also succesfully applied the same ios image to a bunch of other WS-C2960-48TC-L switches in our enviroment.
A rollback to the former ios image c2960-lanbasek9-tar.150-2.SE4 works fine too.
After some resarch in the web, i found the following links:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps1831/products_tech_note09186a00800a6f3a.shtml#tshoot4
and
https://supportforums.cisco.com/docs/DOC-12225
So according to the error message, the reason for the memory consumption is the SSH process, but i have no idea why?
So my questions are:
1. Could a switch reload, before applying the update, solve my memory problem?
2. Reduces the deactivation of the switch interfaces the memory consumption, so that i'm able to apply the upgrade properly?
Yours sincerely
Jörg Radke
