On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Charles Sprickman wrote:
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Mike Andrews wrote:
460 days is kinda a lot -- how much free RAM do you have?
How much do I really have? I don't know. The show memory command showed only about 20M of 128M used. However, after rebooting one and comparing it's behaviour to the other cards, I found the following:
-"save all" took about 5 seconds on the newly rebooted card, vs. 4-5 minutes on the cards with high uptimes. -After working on the console a few minutes, the high uptime cards became sluggish in responding, and eventually just stopped making sense. Pressing "enter" five or six times would not do anything, the seventh push would. By the time I issued a reboot, nothing was echoing back to the screen. -One arc could not even muster a login prompt; it had to be rebooted via TCM. -My DUN 718 and 720 errors went away after rebooting.
Gulp. You're definitely running out of *something*. :) Probably memory.
Might be a memory leak somewhere, and 460 days would be long enough to run it out. Very strange things happen when an ARC runs outta memory
It certainly seems so. I guess I'll have to start putting these things on a schedule. Kind of sucks to have to do that. I've got a 2501 here going on 3 years, and it's pretty happy. And our colo contract at the telco only allows after-hours access at about $500/hr. so I have to boot the arcs during the day, as I don't trust them that much to always come back.
Well, yeah, but to be fair a 2501 is doing a hell of a lot less. :) If you're worried about the ARC not coming back up, hook its console port to the AUX port of your 2501, so you can remotely connect to the console in a pinch... you can jump in and even TFTP new firmware down as the card boots, which is good on the older 64 meg cards that are short on flash. Or put a 2509/2511 in so you can hook all your consoles up. If I could only wire one card's console up that way though, it'd probably be the NMC. If your NMC is alive, you can use it to reboot the other cards. If your NMC is inaccessable, you're kinda hosed.... and my NMC freaks out much more often than my ARC does. Hell, I just found that "snmpbulkwalk" crashes my NMC's almost instantly. Ugh. Mike Andrews * mandrews@dcr.net * mandrews@bit0.com * http://www.bit0.com VP, sysadmin, & network guy, Digital Crescent Inc, Frankfort KY Internet access for Frankfort, Lexington, Louisville and surrounding counties www.fark.com: If it's not news, it's Fark. (Or something like that.) - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.