What does the message "%CHKPT-SP-4-GET_HUGE_BUF: Client 33 buffer requested" mean?

[thorsten.steffen]

Hello,

does anybody know what's the meaning of the syslog message "%CHKPT-SP-4-GET_HUGE_BUF: Client 33 buffer requested" I saw on a Cat6500 after configuring a monitor port?

Neither in error message decoder nor in the cisco search I found any hint.

Best Regards,

Thorsten Steffen

[Ganesh Hariharan · Accepted solution]

Hi,

It's a Bug CSCsw46893 please see the below description for the same hope this help !!

CSCsw46893            Bug Details

C2HD1-SI - %CHKPT-4-GET_HUGE_BUF: Client (Event Manager) message seen

Symptom: The following error message is seen with c2w2b while configuring SPAN PDT: %CHKPT-SW1_SP-4-GET_HUGE_BUF: Client 33 buffer requested (size = 9028) is too large Conditions: This error message is seen with c2w2b images while configuring SPAN Workaround: This error message is harmless since it doesn't have any functional impact, so please ignore it. Further Problem Description: Checkpoint Facility received a SPAN message larger than the maximum size authorized. Checkpoint Facility will still send the message but displays a warning.

Regards

Ganesh.H

[Giuseppe Larosa]

Hello Thorsten,

unfortunately the error message decoder does not provide information for all possible error messages.

the product error messages guide is here

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_2sx/system/messages/122sxsms.html

actually it is IOS version dependent

I don't see the message here too.

CHKPT Messages

This section contains checkpointing (CHKPT) messages.

The message comes from supervisor (SP). it has severity level 4.

GET_HUGE_Buffer means that the system has tried to allocate a system buffer of category/size huge.

You can check system buffers with show buffer

Client 33 buffer requested, here 33 might be a process-id that requested the huge buffer.

It can be just a notification of this event.

>> after configuring a monitor port

Not  easy to say if there is a relationship

Hope to help

Giuseppe