Thanks for the response. I did find this information on Cisco's site and fortunately we had not seen any MALLOCFAIL errors. The box in question has already been updated so hopefully this will not re-occur.
-Max On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 2:49 PM, e ninja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Max, > > Ignore my last post. Are there any mallocfails? if yes, this might be as a > result a memory leak in the IPC buffer addressed in CSCek64188 resolved in > 12.2(18)SXF8. > > ----- > > > CSCek64188 > > Symptoms: An error message indicating memory leak and pending transmission > for IPC messages is displayed as follows: > *Dec 3 01:31:31.792: %IPC-5-WATERMARK: 25642 messages pending in xmt for > the port > Primary RFS Server Port(10000.C) from source seat 2150000 > > > *Dec 3 01:32:01.489: %SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 4268 bytes > failed from > 0x9F32944, alignment 32 > > > > Conditions: This issue is triggered by CSCeb05456 and is applicable only if > your Cisco IOS image has integrated the fix of CSCeb05456. > > Workaround: Periodically, reload the router so that the IPC buffer pool > will be reinitialized. ------ > > Note that your current IOS image has the fix for CSCeb05456 (fixed in > 12.2(18)SXF1 - the trigger for this issue > > > /eninja > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 2:16 PM, e ninja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Max, > > > > This is a sev 5 notification message. As such, it is nothing to be worried > about. From cco.... > > > > > > > > Error Message IPC-5-WATERMARK: [dec] messages pending in [hex] for the > port [chars] [hex].[hex] > > > > > > Explanation This message indicates that a particular IPC port is > overused. An application is not draining packets quickly, which suggests > that the CPU is very busy. [dec] is the number of messages pending in the > IPC to be processed by the application. [chars] is the IPC port name. The > first [hex] is the IPC port number, the second [hex] is the IPC seat number, > and the third [hex] is the IPC index. > > > > Recommended Action No action is required. > > /eninja > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Max Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > %IPC-5-WATERMARK: 1627 messages pending in xmt for the port Primary > > > RFS Server Port(10000.A) seat 10000 > > > > > > I have not found a good explaination for what this is, what causes it, > > > and how to resolve it - or if it's even something to be concerned > > > about. Can anyone share some more information for what this is? > > > > > > This is from a 6509 Sup 720 3BXL running > > > s72033-adventerprisek9_wan-mz.122-18.SXF3.bin. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Max > > > _______________________________________________ > > > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > > > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > > > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
