Regards
Pavan Kumar
At 11:22 AM 4/14/99 -0500, Chris Parker wrote:
>At 10:48 AM 4/14/99 +0000, Paul Gregg wrote:
>>In article <37135514.8E22A813@livingston.com> you wrote:
>>> Paul Gregg wrote:
>>
>>>> The memory available appears to be dropping very slowly:
>>
>>> Memory usage will take a while to stabilize as more ports and features are
>>> used. If it continues to drop after a day or more of use then there
may be
>>> a problem.
>>
>>I think there is definately a problem now:
>
>Nope, I think there isn't. I thought there was too, and I saw the same
>behaviour on all on my PM-4's. A quick glance at the 'show mem verb'
>output tells you where it's all going.
>
>>pm1> ver
>>Lucent PortMaster PM-4 ComOS 4.1b15
>>System uptime is 1 days 9 hours 8 minutes
>>See end of this message.
>>
>>I'm gonna reboot the box to free up 6Mb before it runs out.
>
>It won't run out, rebooting is not needed, and will not actually
>fix anything.
>
>> ID Alloc Free In-Use Size Bytes Used Name
>>--- ------- ------- ------- ----- ---------- --------
>
>[ snip ]
>
>>176 153000 72725 80275 258 4819360 SNMP_BILLING
>
>Note that this chunk is using ~5 MB of memory. As to exactly what
>it is storing, I can't say ;) . I did call to report this already,
>and was informed that it is normal, and it will not run the box out
>of memory. For that matter, we were seeing problems in 4.0.3 where
>RAD_ACCT_BUF ( the radius accounting info buffer ) would fill up and
>lock the box solid. I've been told that the memory allocation/managment
>in 4.1b15 is much smarter and won't blindly allocate memory until it's
>gone.
>
>I would definitely call support though, as they can probably tell you
>a little more as to what all that memory is being used for. But it
>is supposed to do what it's doing. Here's one of my boxes:
>
><--paste-->
>
>lvchi4-1> ver
>Lucent PortMaster PM-4 ComOS 4.1b15
>System uptime is 19 days 14 hours 13 minutes
>lvchi4-1> sh mem
>System memory 17825536 bytes - 11693020 used, 6132516 available
>432:1 1056:0 4288:0 608:0 75616:0 112240:0 448:1 416:1 640:1 560:2 384:1
>368:1 1
>168:2 320:3 400:1 336:2 352:2 176:3 304:48 144:95 240:70 288:80 192:2 256:9
>96:1
>3 112:5 224:71 272:10 208:9 80:767 544:5 2048:1 4240:3 128:231 576:9 32:49
>48:92
> 20:555 64:4 1664:2 4096:2 160:8 16:154
>System nbufs 920 - 116 used, 804 available
>System blocks 460 - 50 used, 410 available
>lvchi4-1>
>
><--paste-->
>
>-Chris
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