I have seen something on CCO about this.. you may have to use the memory-size iomem command (probably inccorect syntax) to up the amount of memory used for your interfaces.. I think if you lookup mallocfail on cco you'll come accross more detail... HTH Cory -----Original Message----- From: Ben Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 1:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: %SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 1680 bytes failed I have recently purchased an ISDN 8 port BRI card for a cisco 4000 router. This is for some of the labs I am doing. When i install the card the router appears to run out of I/O memory: Head Total(b) Used(b) Free(b) Lowest(b) Largest(b) Processor 7F82DC 8420644 1552360 6868284 6701224 6845196 I/O 6000000 1048576 1048540 36 36 36 Without the card it looks like this: Processor 7F82DC 8420644 893604 7527040 7525024 7523020 I/O 6000000 1048576 613604 434972 434972 434972 More information: IOS (tm) 4000 Software (C4000-J-M), Version 11.2(14), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) cisco 4000 (68030) processor (revision 0xA0) with 16384K/1024K bytes of memory. Processor board ID 5070094 G.703/E1 software, Version 1.0. Bridging software. SuperLAT software copyright 1990 by Meridian Technology Corp). X.25 software, Version 2.0, NET2, BFE and GOSIP compliant. TN3270 Emulation software. 4 Serial network interface(s) 8 ISDN Basic Rate interface(s) 128K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory. 4096K bytes of processor board System flash (Read/Write) These are the error messages I get: %SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 1680 bytes failed from 0xC907A, pool I/O, alignment 0 -Process= "Per-minute Jobs", ipl= 6, pid= 30 -Traceback= E5FDC E6D0C C9082 EFD2A C940A F6B76 D40E4 %SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 1680 bytes failed from 0xC907A, pool I/O, alignment 0 -Process= "OSPF Router", ipl= 6, pid= 42 -Traceback= E5FDC E6D0C C9082 C91C4 C9500 2C8DBC 2C838 Here is the config file: Current configuration: ! version 11.2 service timestamps debug uptime service password-encryption service linenumber no service udp-small-servers no service tcp-small-servers service pt-vty-logging ! hostname heimdall ! aaa new-model aaa authentication login default tacacs+ local aaa authentication enable default tacacs+ enable enable secret 5 ... ! username local password 7 ... ip subnet-zero ip domain-list home ip name-server 10.2.2.130 ! interface Loopback0 ip address 10.254.254.220 255.255.255.255 ! interface Serial0 description vacant serial link. no ip address ! interface Serial1 description link to munin via s1 ip address 192.168.100.5 255.255.255.252 ip ospf network non-broadcast bandwidth 4000 ! interface Serial2 description link to ymer-s0 ip address 192.168.50.5 255.255.255.252 ip ospf network non-broadcast bandwidth 4000 ! interface Serial3 description vacant serial link. no ip address ! router ospf 10 network 192.168.0.0 0.0.255.255 area 0 neighbor 192.168.50.6 priority 1 neighbor 192.168.100.6 priority 1 ospf log-adjacency-changes ! ip classless ip ospf name-lookup logging source-interface Loopback0 logging 10.2.2.130 ! tacacs-server host 10.1.1.1 tacacs-server key ... snmp-server community ... RO snmp-server trap-authentication snmp-server location home snmp-server contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] snmp-server chassis-id munin snmp-server enable traps isdn snmp-server enable traps config snmp-server enable traps bgp snmp-server enable traps frame-relay snmp-server enable traps syslog snmp-server enable traps rtr ! line con 0 exec-timeout 35000 0 line aux 0 line vty 0 4 session-timeout 35791 output exec-timeout 0 0 password 7 ... absolute-timeout 10000 session-disconnect-warning 20 message %OUCH, in 20 seconds you are getting disconnected.% ! ntp clock-period 17179632 ntp server 10.1.1.2 end sho cdp neig: Device ID Local Intrfce Holdtme Capability Platform Port ID ymer Ser 2 141 R AS2511-RJ Ser 0 munin Ser 1 154 R 2500 Ser 1 Without the ISDN card the router functions fine. If you have any idea's please let me know. -Ben Smith _________________________________ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
