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Chapter 6 Troubleshooting the Cisco IOS XR Software
Memory Warnings in Configuration Sessions
Caution The commit force command should be used only to apply configurations that reduce memory usage.
Adding configurations that increase memory usage could result in serious loss of router operation.
Viewing System Memory Information
To display a high level summary of system memory, type the show memory summary command.
describes the meaning of each heading.
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:router# show memory summary
Physical Memory: 2048M total
Application Memory : 1787M (1509M available)
Image: 132M (bootram: 132M)
Reserved: 128M, IOMem: 0, flashfsys: 0
Total shared window: 0
RP/0/RSP1/CPU0:router#
To display general memory usage for the device as a whole and by process, type the show memory
command. describes the meaning of each heading.
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:router# show memory
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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Tab l e 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.