<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Do your physical interfaces have 'no ip route-cache'?<br><br>Nathan Brookfield<div>Chief Executive Officer</div><div><br></div><div>Simtronic Technologies Pty Ltd</div><div><a href="http://www.simtronic.com.au">http://www.simtronic.com.au</a></div></div><div><br>On 10/08/2012, at 9:57, James Mcintosh <<a href="mailto:james.mcintosh@rocketmail.com">james.mcintosh@rocketmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><div><div style="color:; background-color:; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi Noggers,</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">We run a Cisco 7201 on our edge. It currently does BGP (default route only) and pumps around 200Mbps connecting our IP transit to a few Ethernet VLANs that it's terminating. It has some ACL's but nothing over the top.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">It's currently running at over 70% CPU when doing 200Mbps. This seems awfully high to me for
such a low level of throughput.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">"sh processes cpu" gives me absolutely no clue as it lists every conceivable process but they are all less than 1% of CPU and definitely don't add up to anything near a total of 70%.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Can anyone else here running 7201 give me some ideas or am I expecting too
much from my 7201?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">-James</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new
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