I have experienced that same problem. My content engine crashed my 7204
router when i deployed it. Bascially the router's memory drop till >1MB and
auto reboot itself. This happens every hour!!!!
i opened a TAC case and they told me is the bug in my IOS. I am using
12.1(4)
"Jason Roysdon" wrote in message
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> My poor little 827-4v just started crashing. I've been tweaking with a
> Content Engine 507 (used as a proxy box, no WCCP support on the 827). I'm
> guessing that's what is hammering the box, but why is it the memory not
> returning to free use?
>
> falcon#sh ver
> Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
> IOS (tm) C820 Software (C820-K2NOSV6Y6-M), Version 12.1(5)YB, EARLY
> DEPLOYMENT RELEASE SOF
> TWARE (fc1)
> TAC:Home:SW:IOS:Specials for info
> Copyright (c) 1986-2001 by cisco Systems, Inc.
> Compiled Thu 08-Feb-01 01:00 by detang
> Image text-base: 0x80013170, data-base: 0x80997DE4
>
> ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.1(1r)XB1, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
> ROM: C820 Software (C820-K2NOSV6Y6-M), Version 12.1(5)YB, EARLY DEPLOYMENT
> RELEASE SOFTWAR
> E (fc1)
>
> falcon uptime is 5 minutes
> System returned to ROM by reload at 18:32:58 PDT Fri May 25 2001
> System restarted at 18:34:23 PDT Fri May 25 2001
> System image file is "flash:c820-k2nosv6y6-mz.121-5.YB.bin"
>
> CISCO C827-4V (MPC855T) processor (revision 0x502) with 23552K/1024K bytes
> of memory.
> Processor board ID JAD04390QBC (72633648), with hardware revision 0000
> CPU rev number 5
> Bridging software.
> 4 POTS Ports
> 1 Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
> 1 ATM network interface(s)
> 128K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
> 8192K bytes of processor board System flash (Read/Write)
>
> Configuration register is 0x2
>
> falcon#sh mem
> Head Total(b) Used(b) Free(b) Lowest(b)
> Largest(b)
> Processor 80FA04D8 7732008 6068088 1663920 1662060
> 1663268
> I/O 1700000 1048644 692208 356436 356436
> 355860
>
> If I fire up my IE5 Offline Syncronize (Cisco Field Notices, Cisco
> Headlines, Slashdot.org), within a few minutes it's dropped to:
> falcon#sh mem
> Head Total(b) Used(b) Free(b) Lowest(b)
> Largest(b)
> Processor 80FA04D8 7732008 6362292 1369716 1350056
> 1345636
> I/O 1700000 1048644 692208 356436 356436
> 355860
>
> This time it appears to have settled (probably because the CE507 has a
large
> portion of the content cached now).
>
> After about 5 minutes:
> falcon#sh mem
> Head Total(b) Used(b) Free(b) Lowest(b)
> Largest(b)
> Processor 80FA04D8 7732008 6693236 1038772 1038444
> 1029716
> I/O 1700000 1048644 692208 356436 356436
> 355860
>
> Can we see a trend? All the while, my Offline Syncronization is busy
> pulling down sites (no doubt getting them faster with the CE507 reading
> ahead and pulling down images to proxy to me before my PC even asks for
> them).
>
> Ok, so my question is, why is it getting hammered so hard? I am running
> CBAC Firewall and IPSEC with 6 tunnels (nothing going on with VPN), so
that
> all adds up with ACLs that packets have to go through. But the overall
> traffic speed is nothing staggering (less than 21K), but it's small web
> traffic, so the pps are probably the more intense item.
>
> Oh, about 10 minutes into it, and we're destined for memory allocation
> problems as soon as we bottom out (which means telnet and console access
> dies):
> falcon#sh mem
> Head Total(b) Used(b) Free(b) Lowest(b)
> Largest(b)
> Processor 80FA04D8 7732008 6946532 785476 745176
> 735040
> I/O 1700000 1048644 692208 356436 356436
> 355860
>
> I'm also curious why my Processor + I/O total doesn't come anywhere near
> 24mb (only about a third).
>
> falcon#sh mem
> Head Total(b) Used(b) Free(b) Lowest(b)
> Largest(b)
> Processor 80FA04D8 7732008 7092000 640008 311376
> 357996
> I/O 1700000 1048644 692208 356436 356436
> 355860
>
> At least the box is recovering now. Before, the free and lowest would
track
> the same all the way 'till I lost my session when it bottomed out. Now,
it
> at least appears to be recovering (It looks like the Cisco stuff finised,
> and just Slashdot.org now and it seems to be crawling).
>
> Anyway, any ideas on why this is happening so drastically? The only time
> I've ever killed ram is with routing protocols and tables getting to big
(on
> old 2500s with only 2mb).
>
> Ok, and now it's really screwy. I do a "show run" and it's blank. I
check
> show version, and sure enough I've got something odd set (0x2).
>
> Fixed that and bounced the box just before it was going to kill my telnet:
>
> Configuration register is 0x2 (will be 0x2102 at next reload)
>
> falcon#sh mem
> Head Total(b) Used(b) Free(b) Lowest(b)
> Largest(b)
> Processor 80FA04D8 7732008 7371692 360316 311376
> 348060
> I/O 1700000 1048644 692208 356436 356436
> 355860
>
>
>
> falcon#show mem
> Head Total(b) Used(b) Free(b) Lowest(b)
> Largest(b)
> Processor 80FA04D8 7732008 7713780 18228 16028
> 776
> I/O 1700000 1048644 692208 356436 356436
> 355860
>
>
> Heh, well, same results. Within 10 minutes of the reboot and starting the
> Offline Sync I'm back down and falling fast:
> falcon#sh mem
> Head Total(b) Used(b) Free(b) Lowest(b)
> Largest(b)
> Processor 80FA04D8 7732008 7076268 655740 305376
> 370988
> I/O 1700000 1048644 694056 354588 354588
> 354012
>
> Thoughts? I'm going to go play with PIX OS 6 and confirm if the VPN
Client
> v3 requires the PIX to have 3DES.
>
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