Very high CPU utilization on BGP router

From: Trying CCIE (dukelondon@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 28 2007 - 05:55:11 ART


Hi guys,

Really need your help with this high CPU utilization problem on two of my
BGP running routers. The output of the "sh ip bgp summary" , "sh process cpu
history" and "show version" commands is as follows: Kindly let me know what
actions should I take to resolve this problem. I would highly appreciate any
help in this regard.

SG-EQ-R01#sh ip bgp sum
BGP router identifier 10.200.0.10, local AS number 23979
BGP table version is 12418965, main routing table version 12418965
213901 network entries using 21604001 bytes of memory
388409 path entries using 18643632 bytes of memory
68614 BGP path attribute entries using 4118220 bytes of memory
61971 BGP AS-PATH entries using 1682376 bytes of memory
0 BGP route-map cache entries using 0 bytes of memory
23776 BGP filter-list cache entries using 285312 bytes of memory
BGP using 46333541 total bytes of memory
BGP activity 1556677/1342774 prefixes, 7343268/6954859 paths, scan interval
60 secs

Neighbor V AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down
State/PfxRcd
201.8.41.3 4 23979 5676967 3924005 12418965 0 0 4w1d 175158
201.8.41.19 4 23979 1377 78704 12418965 0 0 22:53:48 0
201.94.102.65 4 703 4153309 102827 12418965 0 0 3w6d 213249
201.192.168.69 4 10026 0 0 0 0 0 never Idle
(Admin)

SG-EQ-R01#sh proc cpu his
SG-EQ-R01 08:42:53 AM Wednesday Mar 28 2007
GMT
    3444443333333333444443333322222444443333333333444449999944
    4222224444455555666667777777777000007777744444000005555511
100 *****
 90 *****
 80 *****
 70 *****
 60 *****
 50 ***** *****
 40 ***** *************** ********** **************
 30 ************************************************************
 20 ************************************************************
 10 ************************************************************
   0....5....1....1....2....2....3....3....4....4....5....5....
             0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5
               CPU% per second (last 60 seconds)
                                                       1
    8898777777777777889888899999999999999999999999998990999999
    9915899612088888250765706643557666523023004415019890736022
100 ** ******* * **** *
 90 **** *******************************************
 80 ******** *************************************************
 70 ************************************************************
 60 ************************************************************
 50 *********#**#***************************#***###*******##****
 40 #*##########################################################
 30 ############################################################
 20 ############################################################
 10 ############################################################
   0....5....1....1....2....2....3....3....4....4....5....5....
             0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5
               CPU% per minute (last 60 minutes)
              * = maximum CPU% # = average CPU%
    11 1 111 111 1
    0099999999999999990999999999999998999999900099999999999889999999000909
    0086672224021528790968858665452106201637900055666646402791012467000909
100 ****** * ************* * * *********** * *********
 90 ************************************************************************
 80 ************************************************************************
 70 ************************************************************************
 60 ************************************************************************
 50 *****************************************************************##*****
 40 #*#**************###********************###*********************####****
 30 ######*********###########**##*********#############**********##########
 20 ########**#######################***####################***#############
 10 ########################################################################
   0....5....1....1....2....2....3....3....4....4....5....5....6....6....7.
             0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0
                   CPU% per hour (last 72 hours)
                  * = maximum CPU% # = average CPU%

SG-EQ-R01#sh vers
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) 7200 Software (C7200-IK9S-M), Version 12.3(6b), RELEASE SOFTWARE
(fc1)
Copyright (c) 1986-2004 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Wed 19-May-04 17:56 by dchih
Image text-base: 0x60008AF4, data-base: 0x61E42000

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.0(19990210:195103) [12.0XE 105],
DEVELOPMENT SOFTWARE
BOOTLDR: 7200 Software (C7200-KBOOT-M), Version 12.3(5a), RELEASE SOFTWARE
(fc1)

SG-EQ-R01 uptime is 10 weeks, 1 day, 9 hours, 15 minutes
System returned to ROM by reload at 23:29:17 GMT Mon Jan 15 2007
System restarted at 23:31:49 GMT Mon Jan 15 2007
System image file is "disk0:c7200-ik9s-mz.123-6b.bin"
Last reload reason: Reload command

cisco 7206VXR (NPE300) processor (revision D) with 229376K/65536K bytes of
memory.
Processor board ID 11059591
R7000 CPU at 262MHz, Implementation 39, Rev 2.1, 256KB L2 Cache
6 slot VXR midplane, Version 2.0

Last reset from power-on
G.703/E1 software, Version 1.0.
G.703/JT2 software, Version 1.0.
Bridging software.
X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.

PCI bus mb0_mb1 has 600 bandwidth points
PCI bus mb2 has 90 bandwidth points

2 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
6 Serial network interface(s)
1 ATM network interface(s)
125K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.

125440K bytes of ATA PCMCIA card at slot 0 (Sector size 512 bytes).
4096K bytes of Flash internal SIMM (Sector size 256K).
Configuration register is 0x2102

Thanks and best regards!!!



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