100% CPU with no apparent cause on a 831

[chris_moyzan]

Hi everyone. I have a strange situation where one of our 831b is showing 100% CPU usage and the users aren't complaining at all. I checked the processes and didn't see any that were taking up CPU. The traffic is negligible from what I can see. The router has been running at 100% CPU for more than a day now. The other thing is that another one of our 831 is doing the same thing. Is there any known issue with 831's?

Thanks!

[dgahm]

Chris,

Can you post the output from show proc cpu sorted?

I would suggest reloading the router, and checking the bug toolkit for issues with the version of code you are running.

Please rate helpful posts.

Dave

[chris_moyzan]

See attached for the show proc cpu sorted output. I guess I should have mentionned that when I look at the processes, none of them use up ANY CPU at all...

I did look at the bug toolkit but didn't find anything. As for rebooting the router, I would have to do that during the night, unfortunately.

[Danilo Dy]

Hi,

Can you post "show ver" output?

[chris_moyzan]

here's the show ver output:

show ver

Cisco IOS Software, C831 Software (C831-K9O3SY6-M), Version 12.3(8)T4, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

Copyright (c) 1986-2004 by Cisco Systems, Inc.

Compiled Fri 03-Sep-04 08:21 by eaarmas

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(8r)YN, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

ST-RAYMOND uptime is 20 hours, 34 minutes

System returned to ROM by power-on

System image file is "flash:c831-k9o3sy6-mz.123-8.T4.bin"

This product contains cryptographic features and is subject to United

States and local country laws governing import, export, transfer and

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Cisco C831 (MPC857DSL) processor (revision 0x400) with 44237K/4915K bytes of memory.

Processor board ID AMB082022NR (2764410859), with hardware revision 0000

CPU rev number 7

2 Ethernet interfaces

4 FastEthernet interfaces

128K bytes of NVRAM.

12288K bytes of processor board System flash (Read/Write)

2048K bytes of processor board Web flash (Read/Write)

Configuration register is 0x2102

[Danilo Dy]

Hi,

There are multiple bugs and vulnerabilities reported for 12.3(8)T4. Though the 100% CPU util is not listed, it could be a symptom of a new bug or vulnerability. I recommend for you to upgrade your IOS to latest T series, 12.3(14)T7 or 12.4(11)T1

[chris_moyzan]

I guess I'll just reboot one of the router during the night and see if it helps. I ran a report with our monitoring tool to see the CPU usage in the last year and the average is about 4-5%... Nothing was changed recently on those routers to explain this.

[Ahmede]

Have you made any changes lately?

[chris_moyzan]

no changes were made recently, that's what's so puzzling about this. I did see a reboot before the CPU went to 100%, though. Is it possible that there would be some kind of invisible process that wouldn't show with show proc cpu?

[Ahmede]

If you are runnig OPSF, please port the output of

show ip ospf max..

[chris_moyzan]

here's what it gave me:

AS System 1

Maxage delete timer due in NEVER