Hey,
The reason why show run consumes high cpu is that it polls all IOS
modules/componets to get their configs
I remember there is a command on newest IOS that uses some ram to
cache show run output and speed the show run output process, but I
cannot remember the exact command.

Pavel

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Saku Ytti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On (2008-06-09 15:56 -0400), Nick Davey wrote:
>
> Hey Nick,
>
>> I've deployed rancid on a fairly large metro network, and am seeing some
>> pretty high CPU averages. When RANCID runs the CPU's on a large number of
>> our boxes spike to about 95% for several seconds. Although they have never
>> hit 100%, or caused any issues (dropped OSPF hello's, stp bpdu's) I'm
>> concerned that this could happen under the right combination of events this
>> could result is dropped OSPF neighbor adjacency's or other badness.
>
>  As other already pointed out, you shouldn't worry there is (sucky)
> scheduler in IOS that'll make sure that your OSPF/STP etc. keeps rocking
> while doing lower priority stuff, such as what rancid does.
>  However, if you're running software platform (you prolly aren't, if
> you have STP) some commands do compete with CEF, such as 'show run'
> (but not 'show conf' and 'dir'.). And if you have accurate enough
> monitoring, you can observe slightly increased jitter/latency
> for few packets transiting eg. VXR when 'show run' or 'dir'
> is issued.
>
> --
>  ++ytti
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