[c-nsp] Wr mem causes massive delay...

2010-01-25 Thread Jonathan Charles
So, noticed something weird... Got a 2851 with 512MB or RAM... if I have a constant ping going thru the router and I write mem, the ping goes up by a factor of 5 Cisco 2851 (revision 53.50) with 507904K/16384K bytes of memory. Processor board ID FTX1345A0EY 2 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces 51

Re: [c-nsp] Wr mem causes massive delay...

2010-01-25 Thread Phil Mayers
So, is this normal? Ours does it. I wouldn't worry about it - it does not mean packet forwarding will be adversely affected. ___ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at

Re: [c-nsp] Wr mem causes massive delay...

2010-01-25 Thread Jonathan Charles
It is an IP address past the router, on the other side of the WAN... Jonathan On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Byrd, William w...@collier-byrd.netwrote: Is that IP address on an interface in the router or something behind it? William Collier-Byrd / w...@collier-byrd.net Make note, my

Re: [c-nsp] Wr mem causes massive delay...

2010-01-25 Thread Jon Lewis
Are you pinging through (i.e. from one device on one side of the router through to another device on the other side of the router) or are you pinging an interface on the router? Packets forwarded through the router really shouldn't be affected. Pinging the router itself will definitely be

Re: [c-nsp] Wr mem causes massive delay...

2010-01-25 Thread Phil Mayers
On 25/01/10 13:55, Joe Maimon wrote: Phil Mayers wrote: So, is this normal? Ours does it. I wouldn't worry about it - it does not mean packet forwarding will be adversely affected. ___ Depends if he is pinging the router or pinging through it,

Re: [c-nsp] Wr mem causes massive delay...

2010-01-25 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2010-01-25 09:34 -0600), Tony Varriale wrote: If you are pinging through the router, no that is not normal. There will always be some delay while it writes to media. But, it should not affect the forwarding path. It does, but only slightly, 'write' and 'dir' will both do that, as they

Re: [c-nsp] Wr mem causes massive delay...

2010-01-25 Thread Church, Charles
@puck.nether.net Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 7:27 AM Subject: [c-nsp] Wr mem causes massive delay... So, noticed something weird... Got a 2851 with 512MB or RAM... if I have a constant ping going thru the router and I write mem, the ping goes up by a factor of 5 Cisco 2851 (revision 53.50

Re: [c-nsp] Wr mem causes massive delay...

2010-01-25 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/25/10 8:07 AM, Church, Charles wrote: This is a software based router, and 'wri mem' is very CPU intensive. What does the CPU look like before the wri mem is done? I don't think this is abnormal. Very large config on an already busy router with compress-config turned on? ~Seth

Re: [c-nsp] Wr mem causes massive delay...

2010-01-25 Thread Jonathan Charles
It is a big config... cuz of all the voipy stuff. J On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Seth Mattinen se...@rollernet.us wrote: On 1/25/10 8:07 AM, Church, Charles wrote: This is a software based router, and 'wri mem' is very CPU intensive. What does the CPU look like before the wri mem is

Re: [c-nsp] Wr mem causes massive delay...

2010-01-25 Thread Tony Varriale
Assuming the config isn't huge and your router is already oversubbed you shouldn't be able to tell. tv - Original Message - From: Saku Ytti s...@ytti.fi To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 10:06 AM Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Wr mem causes massive delay

Re: [c-nsp] Wr mem causes massive delay...

2010-01-25 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/25/2010 11:53, Tony Varriale wrote: Assuming the config isn't huge and your router is already oversubbed you shouldn't be able to tell. Well, he does have 64 interfaces, so it's probably large-ish. ~Seth ___ cisco-nsp mailing list

Re: [c-nsp] Wr mem causes massive delay...

2010-01-25 Thread Tony Varriale
@puck.nether.net Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 11:40 AM Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Wr mem causes massive delay... It is a big config... cuz of all the voipy stuff. J On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Seth Mattinen se...@rollernet.us wrote: On 1/25/10 8:07 AM, Church, Charles wrote

Re: [c-nsp] Wr mem causes massive delay...

2010-01-25 Thread Tony Varriale
- Original Message - From: Tony Varriale tvarri...@comcast.net To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 1:53 PM Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Wr mem causes massive delay... Assuming the config isn't huge and your router is already oversubbed you shouldn't be able to tell

Re: [c-nsp] Wr mem causes massive delay...

2010-01-25 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2010-01-25 14:00 -0600), Tony Varriale wrote: Assuming the config isn't huge and your router isn't already oversubbed you shouldn't be able to tell. It doesn't really matter, interrupt is interrupt, while compiling the config is what you can do, when you don't have packets to push, but