Chapter 6 Troubleshooting the Cisco IOS XR Software

Memory Warnings in Configuration Sessions

F I N A L D R A F T — C i s c o C o n f i d e n t i a l

Physical Memory: 2048M total

Application Memory : 1787M (1510M available)

Image: 132M (bootram: 132M)

Reserved: 128M, IOMem: 0, flashfsys: 0

Total shared window: 0

kernel: jid 1

 

 

 

Address

 

Bytes

What

000d2000

 

12288

Program Stack

00112000

 

12288

Program Stack

Total Allocated

Memory: 0

 

Total Shared Memory: 0

 

pkg/bin/wd-mbi: jid 72

 

Address

 

Bytes

What

4817f000

 

4096

Program Stack (pages not allocated)

48180000

 

516096

Program Stack (pages not allocated)

481fe000

 

8192

Program Stack

48200000

 

8192

Program Text

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Table 6-1

Heading Descriptions for show memory Command Output

 

 

 

 

Heading

 

 

Description

 

 

 

Physical Memory

 

Amount of physical memory installed on the device.

 

 

Application Memory

Memory available for the system to use (total memory minus image size,

 

 

 

reserved, IOMem, and flashfsys).

 

 

 

 

Image

 

 

Size of the bootable image.

 

 

 

 

Reserved

 

 

Reserved for packet memory.

 

 

 

 

IOMem

 

 

IO memory—Currently used as a backup for packet memory.

 

 

 

 

flashfsys

 

 

Flash file system memory.

 

 

 

Process and JID

 

Process and job ID.

 

 

 

 

Address

 

 

Starting address in memory.

 

 

 

 

Bytes

 

 

Size of memory block.

 

 

 

 

What

 

 

Block description.

 

 

 

 

Removing Configurations to Resolve Low-Memory Warnings

To resolve most low-memory problems, you should remove the configurations from the router that are consuming the most memory. Often, memory problems occur when a large new configuration is added to the system. The following sections provide information to resolve low-memory issues:

Clearing a Target Configuration, page 6-10

Removing Committed Configurations to Free System Memory, page 6-10

Rolling Back to a Previously Committed Configuration, page 6-10

Clearing Configuration Sessions, page 6-11

Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Router Getting Started Guide

 

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Cisco Systems A9KMOD80TR, ASR 9000 manual Removing Configurations to Resolve Low-Memory Warnings, Heading Description

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