Re: ComOS 3.7 memory consumption

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Mon, 25 Aug 1997 23:59:31 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Andrew Silliker wrote:

>
> Is the box that is running out of memory a DR or BDR?
>
> I've seen the same behaviour going from 3.5c6 to 3.7.
>
> The BDR now only has 4k free on it, and will have to be
> upgraded to 16MB. All of the other PM3's still have 400K
> free on them.

Houston, we have a problem:

Command> sh mem
System memory 4194304 bytes - 3793252 used, 401052 available
2048:4 1152:1 640:1 2832:1 144:5 64:1 96:35 128:4 80:1 272:5 176:3 16:99
160:4 32:97 48:10
System nbufs 1400 - 52 used, 1348 available
Command> ver
Livingston PortMaster PM-2e ComOS 3.7
System uptime is 6 days 7 hours 57 minutes

This is a box with only 6 BRI, no asnyc ports (well...just a console
port), no Wan port, running OSPF. Typically, it's the DR or BDR, but when
I rebooted it for 3.7, it lost that status and has not regained it (since
the ones that took over haven't had a reason to give it up). Where the
heck did all the memory go? It is being used to make the unused BRI leds
blink real fast?

It's actually lost another 3612 bytes while composing this message.

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