Good info +1 Mack
-----Original Message----- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Sascha Pollok Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 3:07 AM To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Memory leak on in latest 12.0S on GSR? *Solved* >> I did some digging and found, that "show mem dead" is awfully long. Feels >> like millions of lines (could be ten thousands of lines, too). Most of them >> refer to a process that I can not find anything about: >> >> 07406718 0000000040 074066C8 0740676C 001 -------- -------- 001FF434 acct >> periodic timer >> >> "acct periodic timer" - doh! Anyone with an idea what that is? > > Here is the top output of "sh mem dead total": > > Dead Proc Summary for: Processor > > PC Total Name > 0x001FF434 1078452 acct periodic timer > 0x0078EF44 114 Virtual Exec > 0x0078EED8 114 Virtual Exec > 0x0078EEC0 114 Virtual Exec > 0x006D0AD8 79 TCP CB > > Looks like "acct periodic timer" is indeed forgetting to tidy up it's > room lots of times. Any help is appreciated. > > Thank > Sascha For the records: the reason for my memory leak problem on latest 12.0(33)S was the following configuration statement (for whatever reason it was there): aaa accounting update periodic 5 Removed this statement and reload once (to make the Check Heaps process run quickly again) and everythings fine. -Sascha _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/