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Not Necessarily. as i posted earlier you can use those commands to find the subprocess and what packets are being punted to the cpu.
i also suggest that you check out https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/switches/catalyst-6500-series-switches...
You are running a modular code for the 6500 called "ION" which is outdated.
ION is an early concept for 6500 for IOS modularity.looking at your outputs we can see:PID/TID 5Sec 1Min 5Min Process Prio STATE CPU16406 65.0% 44.2% 31.2% ios-base 5h49m <<<...
When you have an ip helper configured on an SVI/L3 interface and some user is flooding DHCP discover messages, they will be punted to the CPU for processing (since the switch will need to generate the packet as a unicast DHCP). when that user doesn't...
