Well, you are waiting for NVGEN which ... <snip> I've just found a URL which explains it so I don't have to :
http://6200networks.com/2008/09/17/configuration-generation-performance-enhancement/ I can tell you I have NVGEN caching enabled on 12.2SXH2a on SUP720 router(config)#parser config ? cache Cache the configuration Dave. Jason Koh wrote: > Hi there > > I have a strange problem with a pair of cat6509s. Both are connected to each > other via OSPF and IBGP, with EBGP with my upstream providers. > > Whenever I use show running-config, it will pause for an extremely long time > after the line "Building Configuration". It happens from either console or > telnet sessions. At first I thought it was a CPU or memory problem, but > "show proc cpu" and "show proc mem" shows nothing out of the ordinary (cpu > less than 20% and memory with more than 256M free). Rebooting both machines > doesn't solve the problem either. > > After further investigations, I found out that the same problem occurs when > I do the following as well. > > 1) copy running-config startup-config > 2) write memory > > Show startup-config does not have this problem. > >>From what I see, it looks like a problem with NVRAM. Also predictably, the > session doing any of the 3 commands will lock the NVRAM preventing other > sessions from doing a show startup-config as well. Killing the session > (clear line vty or clear line console) that are doing any of the 3 command > doesn't seem to kill the session at all. > > It doesn't seem to be a hardware issue as both cat6509s display the same > problem since early this month at the same time. > > Any insights on this will be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks. > > /Jason > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
