Hi all,
I've discovered the following error on one of our 6506's today, and I
have not been able to find a reference on either Cisco's site or Google.
Could someone enlighten me?
Thanks,
-- Stephen

>START
May 11 02:26:17: %SYS-DFC1-2-MALLCFAIL: Memory allocation of 65536
bytes failed from 0x203A88FC, alignment 8
Pool: Processor Free: 1735144 Cause: Memory fragmentation
Alternate Pool: None Free: 0 Cause: No Alternate pool
-Process= "FIB Control Task", ipl= 0, pid= 62
-Traceback= 20390624 20393014 203A8904 204B5488 204AC7E4 204ACB64 204A4FA8
May 11 02:27:18: %SYS-DFC1-2-MALLCFAIL: Memory allocation of 65536
bytes failed from 0x203A88FC, alignment 8
Pool: Processor Free: 1722536 Cause: Memory fragmentation
Alternate Pool: None Free: 0 Cause: No Alternate pool
-Process= "FIB Control Task", ipl= 0, pid= 62
-Traceback= 20390624 20393014 203A8904 204B5488 204AC7E4 204ACB64 204A4FA8
May 11 09:13:26: %SYS-DFC1-2-MALLCFAIL: Memory allocation of 65536
bytes failed from 0x203A88FC, alignment 8
Pool: Processor Free: 1737472 Cause: Memory fragmentation
Alternate Pool: None Free: 0 Cause: No Alternate pool
-Process= "FIB Control Task", ipl= 0, pid= 62
-Traceback= 20390624 20393014 203A8904 204B5488 204AC7E4 204ACB64 204A4FA8
May 11 09:14:26: %SYS-DFC1-2-MALLCFAIL: Memory allocation of 65536
bytes failed from 0x203A88FC, alignment 8
Pool: Processor Free: 1722736 Cause: Memory fragmentation
Alternate Pool: None Free: 0 Cause: No Alternate pool
-Process= "FIB Control Task", ipl= 0, pid= 62
-Traceback= 20390624 20393014 203A8904 204B5488 204AC7E4 204ACB64 204A4FA8
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You have a DFC (Distributed Forwarding Card) that does not have enough
memory avaible to hold the FIB. Look into purchasing a memory
upgrade for this DFC to match the memory on your PFC.
-Brandon

5/11/06, Stephen Fulton <cisco-nsp (AT) lists (DOT) esoteric.cawrote:
Hi all,

I've discovered the following error on one of our 6506's today, and I
have not been able to find a reference on either Cisco's site or Google.
Could someone enlighten me?

Thanks,

-- Stephen
>
>START
>
May 11 02:26:17: %SYS-DFC1-2-MALLCFAIL: Memory allocation of 65536
bytes failed from 0x203A88FC, alignment 8
Pool: Processor Free: 1735144 Cause: Memory fragmentation
Alternate Pool: None Free: 0 Cause: No Alternate pool

-Process= "FIB Control Task", ipl= 0, pid= 62
-Traceback= 20390624 20393014 203A8904 204B5488 204AC7E4 204ACB64 204A4FA8
May 11 02:27:18: %SYS-DFC1-2-MALLCFAIL: Memory allocation of 65536
bytes failed from 0x203A88FC, alignment 8
Pool: Processor Free: 1722536 Cause: Memory fragmentation
Alternate Pool: None Free: 0 Cause: No Alternate pool

-Process= "FIB Control Task", ipl= 0, pid= 62
-Traceback= 20390624 20393014 203A8904 204B5488 204AC7E4 204ACB64 204A4FA8
May 11 09:13:26: %SYS-DFC1-2-MALLCFAIL: Memory allocation of 65536
bytes failed from 0x203A88FC, alignment 8
Pool: Processor Free: 1737472 Cause: Memory fragmentation
Alternate Pool: None Free: 0 Cause: No Alternate pool

-Process= "FIB Control Task", ipl= 0, pid= 62
-Traceback= 20390624 20393014 203A8904 204B5488 204AC7E4 204ACB64 204A4FA8
May 11 09:14:26: %SYS-DFC1-2-MALLCFAIL: Memory allocation of 65536
bytes failed from 0x203A88FC, alignment 8
Pool: Processor Free: 1722736 Cause: Memory fragmentation
Alternate Pool: None Free: 0 Cause: No Alternate pool

-Process= "FIB Control Task", ipl= 0, pid= 62
-Traceback= 20390624 20393014 203A8904 204B5488 204AC7E4 204ACB64 204A4FA8

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