Hey Skeeve, Re config size, have you thought about using "service compress-config"?
This might help to reduce the config size by about 25-30%, which may or may not be enough, or may not be enough for long enough. Just a quick dir I did before adding command: Router#dir nvram: Directory of nvram:/ 237 -rw- 1292 <no date> startup-config And after: Router#wr Building configuration... Compressed configuration from 1316 bytes to 829 bytes[OK] Router#dir nvram: Directory of nvram:/ 237 -rw- 829 <no date> startup-config Though if your config is that big, maybe it is just worth finding a box with bigger NVRAM anyway. :-) Also I wonder, on some Cat switches NVRAM is just flash emulated anyway (which might explain why some of them write their config so quickly...) I wonder if theres some special command that can increase the amount allocated to the virtual NVRAM? Tom On 5 April 2012 06:25, Skeeve Stevens <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > I have a customer trying to setup a solution for some hosting. > > They want to have a dozen or so VLANs with thousands of secondary subnets > across these VLANs all configured with HSRP. > > Initially they are testing with Cisco 3750's and they are having problems: > > Apr 5 11:48:26.484 AEST: %SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 395648 > bytes failed from 0x1164560, alignment 0 > Pool: Processor Free: 1212608 Cause: Memory fragmentation > Alternate Pool: None Free: 0 Cause: No Alternate pool > -Process= "hulc running config", ipl= 0, pid= 309 > -Traceback= 29AF8E4 29B1E04 29B2068 2C3D198 1164564 1163534 1160320 1169408 > 134B664 134B6F0 1ECAA54 1F5D2E4 1F5DA08 1620C20 1621984 1621B28 > > Also upon trying to save the config: > > TEST#copy run start > Destination filename [startup-config]? > startup-config file open failed (Not enough space) > 0 bytes copied in 0.00 > > So the 512k NVRAM isn't enough. > > Does anyone know a Cisco model that can handle this many instances of HSRP, > number of secondary subnets, and has the NVRAM to save the actual config? > (couple of meg I guess) ? > > ...Skeeve > > > > *Skeeve Stevens, CEO* > eintellego Pty Ltd > [email protected] ; www.eintellego.net <http://www.eintellego.net.au> > > Phone: 1300 753 383 ; Fax: (+612) 8572 9954 > > Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; skype://skeeve > > facebook.com/eintellego > > twitter.com/networkceoau ; www.linkedin.com/in/skeeve > > PO Box 7726, Baulkham Hills, NSW 1755 Australia > > The Experts Who The Experts Call > Juniper - Cisco – Brocade - IBM > _______________________________________________ > 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/
