Cisco Switching/Routing :: Very High CPU Utilization Core Switch 4503?
Feb 14, 2012
We had a core switch(30 vlans) in our environment and it's noticed that CPU utilization of the core switch is showing high during recent days. I have checked logs and processes, but couldn't find the root cause. The issue found only in the office hourly only(after that the cpu utilization is idle and normal). I have already referred the following link to troubleshoot the issue " [URL]
see the following outputs from the core switch
CPU utilization for five seconds: 99%/0%; one minute: 99%; five minutes: 99%
PID Runtime(ms) Invoked uSecs 5Sec 1Min 5Min TTY Process
30 6687557041432420936 466 47.52% 47.10% 45.98% 0 Cat4k Mgmt LoPri
55 30667074884269560256 0 45.36% 45.50% 45.85% 0 IP Input
29 28552856922870089254 0 3.59% 3.50% 3.57% 0 Cat4k Mgmt HiPri
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Note: Each Invalid source mac entry in each day from same port (above is the output after clearing logs before 3 days)
My queries regarding the issues are following
1) How can we find root cause regarding the high cpu utilization?
2) Is a single invalid mac address makes the cpu highly utilized for suppressing it?
We have two core switches in our network (Cisco WS-4503). HSRP is working as Active-Standby mode. Recently it has been found that core 1 (which is in active mode) shown high CPU load (60% - 100%). Also found that the below mentioned process takes more CPU. Our network consist of around 30 Vlans. We have already checked for the solution in Cisco website [URL] but couldn't find exact reason. see the below outputs for core 1 switch.
Core1# sh processes cpu sorted CPU utilization for five seconds: 55%/3%; one minute: 65%; five minutes: 71%PID Runtime(ms) Invoked uSecs 5Sec 1Min 5Min TTY Process 30 1606933521086983644 147 24.79% 29.93% 35.85% 0 Cat4k Mgmt LoPri 29
We have cisco 4510R+E switch with IOS-XE Software Version 03.01.01.SG RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1).Our this switch is having two core & one core is always going to about 90% to 98% cpu utilization while other core is showing normal (about 5% to 10%),we check with-This switch is gateway of our LAN.
we have two 6513 core switches redundant to each other by using HSRP and MST. Currently we have a problem in a CPU as it's high in both cores as appeared in the following logging message:
We had a core switch(4503) in our environment and recently we tried to enable syslog in the switch. But the syslog server doesnt receives all the configured level messages from the switch. Following is the only message getting in syslog server after the configuration change in switch.
%SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by CWLMS onvty1
(No Traffic related messages like acl deny traffic, spanning tree events etc are getting to syslog server as well as log buffer of the switch)
Following are the logging configuration for the core switch
In Cisco 3750 facing high CPU utilization for specific period. During this period traffic response times across the switch degrades. Steps to identify interface potentially generating traffic. I have attached 'sh proc cpu history' , ' sh ip traffic', 'sh proc cpu sorted' during troubled period .
I am a new network engineer on a retail company and I am having a problem on the High utilization of my 3-stack switch 2960 only during Peak Hours of the Store Sales.
Note: on Peak hours, it is peaking at 90-95 % here is the utilization after Peak hours: 4444333334444433333333333333333333333333333333333333333333
I have been facing High CPU Utilization issue with few of my Cisco 4006 Switches together from last one month. Out of which 1 switch issue sorted out auto after 2 days however the problem is still exists with rest 3 switches.They are 6-7 year old and having one SUP engine and other are switch port modules.
i am seeing very high utilization on a random basis on the stack. and the logs indicate me that there is a pattern where there is a stack power cable shows inserted (which was never unplugged) followed by sudden spike in the utilization.
001018: *Mar 6 16:21:22.138: %PLATFORM_STACKPOWER-6-CABLE_EVENT: Switch 4 stack power cable 1 inserted 001019: *Mar 6 18:18:37.982: %SYS-1-CPURISINGTHRESHOLD: Threshold: Total CPU
We have a problem of igh CPU Utilization in Cisco 4510R-with dual SUP V-10G modules.
Cisco 4510R switch is the CORE switch and have 30 no's of VLans. It was running PVST/PVST+ previously. But Now we have migrated to MST. But after upgradation the CPU utilization reached alomst 98%.
We have also tried Loopguard feature enabled on all ports: but after some period same problem is repeated.
version information is below: Cisco IOS Software, ME340x Software (ME340x-METROIPACCESSK9-M), Version 12.2(25)SEG3, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2) Copyright (c) 1986-2007 by Cisco Systems, Inc. Compiled Wed 25-Jul-07 22:56 by amvarma
In my network we use all cisco 2960 switches, problem is when someone copying 4gb data or high from one switch to another switch, by that time rto (Request time out) is coming.
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1. when user 1 copy data from server ,at that time who is in switch2 behind like user2 ,he is getting problem like when ping to default-gateway,or rto is coming and network is very slow .
2. when i open sw2,sw1,sw3,trunk ports utilization is very high except sw4 to sw1 trunk ports,who behind sw4 like user4 ,he is not getting problem.
3.all switches trunkport in my network is faster ethernet and i have no option to connect trunkport to gigaehternet and ethernet channel.
I upgraded the newest IOS 15.0(1)SE for our SW C2960-24-TT-L, the process was succeseful. However, we found SW memory utilization raised to 82% this morning in normal situation. (Momery: Total 21341260, Used17471692) Did you guys meet the same problem after upgrading to 15.0(1)SE? I also would like to know what the normal memory utilization is? and what is the impact of memory utilization highly?
I upgrade the IOS of my switch 3560 from C3560-IPBASE-M), Version 12.2(25)SEB4, To C3560-IPBASEK9-M), Version 12.2(55)SE5 after that the utilizatio of the memory increase to 80% I attached the output of show memory statistics history
WS-C3750G-24TS-S1U switch stack with high CPU utilization. 3 switches are stacked and using PBR on that. I am attaching the show cpu process as an attachment.The current template is "desktop routing" template.The selected template optimizes the resources in the switch to support this level of features for 8 routed interfaces and 1024 VLANs. [code]
We have a 6509 core with the below modules running for a long time and the utilization used to be always 10 to 13 percent checking with the supplier it was told to us that due to the firewall modue we have and its normal Now 2 days back i noticed the utilzation had jumped to 90 % and now it happened again
I see that on runnung proc cpu
16407 56.1% 56.5% 55.9% ios-base
16430 35.3% 35.2% 33.9% iprouting.iosproc
the modules present
Mod Ports Card Type Model Serial No.--- ----- -------------------------------------- ------------------ ----------- 1 6 Firewall Module WS-SVC-FWM-1 SAD140901XA 3 16 16 port 1000mb GBIC ethernet
recommend a cisco core switch and access switches in IPTV network infrastructure?I was ask to implement a network for IPTV system but i don't have idea what will be the model i will use.
We suddenly noticed high CPU utilization on one of our 7600 routers. I output of show process CPU showed high utlization for the FM core process. I looked it up but did not find information on what this process does. [code]
we have Core-Siwtch 4503 in the main building which is connected to another Core 4503-E in another building ,, now our PCs connected to the 4503-E ,,, any XP M/C can pick an Dhcp-ip but and M/C run Win.7 Cannot !!
action taken :
1st we try to connect our win 7 pc in the node which was connected to xp M/C ,, and it didnot take ip from the DHCP . ,, 2
2nd we ensure from the core-switch configuration and its normal with no mistake
3rd trying to use tool from Microsoft Fix-it Center whih name is ( Microsoftfixit 50475 ) which is just .msi file but the problem face us is that this tool donnot accept to run on win 7 cause its made for vista .
4th after some researchs we notic that there is some modifications have to be performed on registery by disabling the dhcp broadcast flag we did it but nothing change yet
5th now we are waiting to perform another action which is Disable the IP Helper service in win 7
We have a Cisco 3845 router configured as a voice gateway with multi SIP trunks. But when it reachs 200 calls traffic, the CPU increase to 60-70% and caused by CCSIP_SPI_CONTROL process.
CPU utilization for five seconds: 46%/30%; one minute: 54%; five minutes: 58% PID Runtime(ms) Invoked uSecs 5Sec 1Min 5Min TTY Process 377 400729448 171017979 2343 6.31% 10.71% 12.44% 0 CCSIP_SPI_CONTRO
We are facing high CPU Utilization on Cisco 3750X-48P-L without any traffic on it. find the attached log files for 2 separate 3750's stack, we have upgraded the IOS of SW2 from "c3750e-universalk9-mz.122-55.SE3.bin" to "c3750e-universalk9-mz.122-55.SE4.bin" but still we found the same issue with CPU utilization.
I've been looking at reported problems with our Vdeio Conferencing kit attched to a stack of 3750's (which I think is down to QoS) but this got me looking at the logs. We get a lot of high CPU utilization warnings mainly for SNMP (315), Hulc running con (95), Virtual exec (289). I understand the last two are normal, and the SNMP one is probably Cisco Works polling as it happens every 4 hours.
However I've got an odd one: Apr 25 07:34:58: %SYS-1-CPURISINGTHRESHOLD: Threshold: Total CPU Utilization(Total/Intr): 93%/0%, Top 3 processes(Pid/Util): 296/85%, 144/0%, 154/0%
From couple of weeks we have observed the cpu utilization of cisco 6509 with SUP 720 is high. During daytime from 9:00 to 21:00 it keeps increasing & reaches 98% & after 21:00 becomes normal.
I have a 2 cisco core (cisco WS-C6509-E (R7000) processor) and been working for quite sometime.they are conneted with HSRP with active standby config with a 10 g module for redundancy just today I see that the cpu utilization went to about 50% and its the same on both cores.
I have some events where the CPU utilization in a cluster switches of WS-3750 is going to 100%, the process with the major utilization of CPU is the "hulc running con".
We have seen high CPU utilization on some Cisco switches of type 2960S. Also we got info, that applications are running with poor performance or with interruption.Following IOS is loaded: C2960s-universalk9-mz.122.55.SE
We have microsoft servers and other application servers (around 12 in nos) which should have gig connections to the access switch. In turn this access switch will be connected to our distribution switch 4503. Which model of access switch best fits from the below 3 models. It should be cost effective as well.
I am seeing a strange situation on my 6500 switch?By having snmp walk on '1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.109.1.1.1.1.3' (== cpmCPUTotal5sec), I came to know that there are two processor and the cpu util for switching processor is gone to 88 % and some time creeps to 99 %.
snmpwalk -v2c -c "removes" sw6500 '1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.109.1.1.1.1.3' SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.9.9.109.1.1.1.1.3.1 = Gauge32: 12 (--- this is for CPU of Router Processor ) SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.9.9.109.1.1.1.1.3.3 = Gauge32: 99 (--- this is for CPU of Switching Processor )
but when I do sh process cpu on the console, all looks normal as it shows cpu utilization of RP. why the value is so high on the switching processor ?
I am running a 1712 12.4(25d) with NAT, VPN and FW/IDS. I have a broadband ethernet connection at 20mb. As I run some traffic through it, the processor jumps up to near 100% and throughput comes to a screeching halt. IP CEF is turned on and makes no difference when it is turned off or on.
I am looking at the utilization on a Catalyst 3560-E. I am running a test with eight 1 GIGE links RXing at 95 % utilization. All of the traffic is going to a TenGigE port. The device on the TenGigE port is echoing back all of the traffic received, so the 1 GIG links are TXing at 95% as well.When I do a "show controllers utilization", the port utilization numbers are correct, but the fabric utilization is higher than I would expect. The fabric should be 128 gigbits / second in this switch, and there is 7.6 gigabits TX/RX to the ten gig port. The fabric utilization is at 49%. I would expect 7.6 / 128 = 5.9% or possible double that. [code]
