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Cisco 6509 High CPU (ios-base)

CSCO11177789
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When we run "sh proc cpu" command, we see these outputs. what does ios-base process mean ?

ver : s72033-ipservicesk9_wan-vz.122-33.SXH7.bin

What we supposed to do to reduce cpu usage ?

Thanks.

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Chad Peterson
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Looking at your 'show proc cpu detailed 16407' it looks like high CPU is caused due to interrupts:

Backbone1#sh processes cpu detailed 16407

CPU utilization for five seconds: 57%; one minute: 57%; five minutes: 56%

PID/TID   5Sec    1Min     5Min Process             Prio  STATE        CPU

16407    51.2%   49.4%    49.1% ios-base                              10d06h

--snip--

Process sbin/ios-base, type IOS, PID = 16407

CPU utilization for five seconds: 7%/44%; one minute: 6%; five minutes: 6%

Task  Runtime(ms)  Invoked  uSecs    5Sec   1Min   5Min TTY Prio Task Name

So modular IOS displays this a bit different than traditional IOS...but when you look at the 5 sec CPU utiliztion and see X/Y.  Y in modular IOS is the % of CPU caused by interrupts.

We have a guide that helps with troubleshooting high CPU:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_tech_note09186a00804916e0.shtml

The main part you will want to look at his here:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_tech_note09186a00804916e0.shtml#utilities

It should help you see what traffic is getting punted to the CPU.  Once we know the traffic, we can see where did it come from, where is it going, and start to take a look at why its punted.

The best tool here is to span the CPU.  This will give you an idea of what the traffic is, and that should give some clues to this.

Giuseppe Larosa
Hall of Fame
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Hello,

see this thread

https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2038641?tstart=0

the best thing you can do is to move to standard IOS as explained by Edison and Reza.

Our forums have had several instances of cpu problems with modular IOS

I recommend to use standard IOS to my customer: if a new C6500 box arrives with modular IOS we install standard IOS on it.

Hope to help

Giuseppe

first of all, thanks both of you for replies.

is it a good choice to upgrade SXI3 ?

what version do you suggest ?

CSCO11177789 wrote:

first of all, thanks both of you for replies.

is it a good choice to upgrade SXI3 ?

what version do you suggest ?


Hi,

with SXI, currently the latest is SXI4a. I have not test it 4 or 4a, but SXI4 came out a couple months ago.  We found out that part of MPLS was not integrated into it and Cisco integrated the MPLS features and came up with SXI4a.  So, if you have a lab, I would test 4a to make sure all the features you need are in there.

Also, as Giuseppe (Hi Giuseppe) already noted, go with non-modular.

HTH

Reza

We found out that part of MPLS was not integrated into it and Cisco integrated the MPLS features and came up with SXI4a.

Good info Reza (+5).  Can you specify what feature(s) were added to the SXI4a code?

We wanted to run the SXI4a code but someone from Cisco has recommended our design architects to stick with SXI3 (much to our disappointment) because no large accounts are using it.

Leo,

Thanks for the rating

The major feature that was added to SXI4 and 4a is that in a VSS environment now you can have 2 Sups per 6500. Also, there is a bug in SXI3 in regards to SSH key corruption when using eFSU to upgrade VSS pair. Basically when you use eFSU to upgrade a VSS pair the, SSH key gets corrupted and you lose connectivity to the device.  Then you have to login via telnet and change the FQDN that was assign to the switch. Now, if you don't use eFSU everything works fine.

Reza

Hi Reza,

Thanks.  What about the MPLS feature that was integrated to the new SXI4/SXI4a?  Would you happen to have any information?

Hi Leo,

Sorry to get back to you so late

Here are some of the specific caveats that ware resolved in SXI4.

Regarding your question on MPLS features, there ware no additional MPLS features added in SXI4  The issue was that some of the MPLS features from SXI3 to 4 ware missed, so they added those missing features to SXI4a

HTH

Reza

* CSCsh51293-Resolved in 12.2(33)SXI4

The Secure Shell server (SSH) implementation in Cisco IOS contains multiple vulnerabilities that allow unauthenticated users the ability to generate a spurious memory access error or, in certain cases, reload the device.

* CSCsg65318-Resolved in 12.2(33)SXI4

Symptoms: Malformed SSH version 2 packets may cause a memory leak.

Conditions: This symptom is observed on a Cisco platform configured for SSH version 2 after it has received malformed SSHv2 packets. The impact of this flaw is that the affected platform may operate in a degraded condition. Under rare circumstances it may reload to recover itself.

Thanks Reza.

i hope non-modular ios helps us to find out what the problem is.

i'll upgrade to sxi4a as soon as possible.

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