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High CPU utilization on Cisco 7206VXR seems to be limiting performance of higher-speed users
We've had two complaints from 2 Mbps customers that they aren't getting
their contracted bandwidth. I went to one of them and confirmed that it's
mixed, getting only up to 1.5 Mbps at times. Half of our customers run at
128/128 kbps, another 40% at 1024/256 kbps, and the remaining at 2048/384
kbps.

We have a Cisco 7206VXR with an NPE400 with 491520K/32768K bytes of memory
running c7200-is-mz.122-26.bin. The processor is running at about 60%, up
from 40% a year ago. I believe that the CPU has something do with the
performance.

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Router#sh proc cpu | exc 0.00.*0.00
CPU utilization for five seconds: 61%/27%; one minute: 62%; five minutes:
60%
PID Runtime(ms) Invoked uSecs 5Sec 1Min 5Min TTY Process
3 15913764 57964253 274 0.16% 0.04% 0.04% 0 PPP auth
4 176627692 11860384 14892 0.00% 0.41% 0.43% 0 Check heaps
15 1228555796 497123198 2471 2.51% 3.14% 3.51% 0 ARP Input
16 67532280 9516840 7096 0.00% 0.14% 0.16% 0 HC Counter
Timer
22 417429972 77856792 5361 0.32% 0.75% 0.80% 0 Net
Background
40 14789027243609760351 0 23.24% 23.18% 23.30% 0 IP Input
41 12942320 4757230 2720 0.08% 0.05% 0.06% 0 CDP Protocol
49 53911324 50794855 1061 0.00% 0.07% 0.07% 0 IP Background
63 169456380 62895851 2694 0.16% 0.29% 0.31% 0 CEF process
94 309167136 7797068 39652 0.89% 0.79% 0.80% 0 Compute load
avg
103 676779760 45869622 14754 1.02% 3.72% 3.99% 0 PPPOE
discovery
113 210967168 765640753 275 0.16% 0.18% 0.19% 0 PPP manager
126 488852524 15943470 30661 4.37% 2.72% 2.79% 0 VTEMPLATE
Backgr
127 40 152 263 0.08% 0.03% 0.00% 2 Virtual Exec
Router#
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I followed the advice on Cisco's web pages on troubleshooting IP Input CPU
load on Friday but nothing I tried seemed to make a difference.

Our DSL customers come in on two OC3's and we have some FTTH customers
coming in on Fa0/0. Our main Ethernet interface, Fa0/1, does have quite a
few drops and flushes, but you can see the loads are low and cacti reports
interface utilization of about 10 to 15 Mbps.
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FastEthernet0/1 is up, line protocol is up
Hardware is i82543 (Livengood), address is 000d.6633.dc06 (bia
000d.6633.dc06)
MTU 1500 bytes, BW 100000 Kbit, DLY 100 usec,
reliability 255/255, txload 12/255, rxload 56/255
Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
Keepalive set (10 sec)
Full-duplex, 100Mb/s, 100BaseTX/FX
ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 00:05:00
Last input 00:00:00, output 00:00:00, output hang never
Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
Input queue: 0/75/4135105/302954774 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output
drops: 10256
^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
^^^^^
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Router#show interfaces switching
<snipped out the FastEthernet0/0>
FastEthernet0/1
Throttle count 916697
Drops RP 4135723 SP 0
SPD Flushes Fast 303102861 SSE 0
SPD Aggress Fast 0
SPD Priority Inputs 58974374 Drops 0

Protocol Path Pkts In Chars In Pkts Out Chars Out
Other Process 18572355 1146224998 3926592 235595520
Cache misses 0
Fast 0 0 0 0
Auton/SSE 0 0 0 0
IP Process 3017811923 1959581225 2355715836 3994592527
Cache misses 0
Fast 4013202896 604980241 3965937813 3361756168
Auton/SSE 0 0 0 0
ARP Process 823012431 2140444865 38144362 2441239168
Cache misses 0
Fast 0 0 0 0
Auton/SSE 0 0 0 0
CDP Process 654814 270489385 655922 347750478
Cache misses 0
Fast 0 0 0 0
Auton/SSE 0 0 0 0
PPP over ATM Process 0 0 9 540
Cache misses 0
Fast 0 0 0 0
Auton/SSE 0 0 0 0
MSCP Process 0 0 31363715 2007277760
Cache misses 0
Fast 0 0 0 0
Auton/SSE 0 0 0 0
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A complete 'show interfaces switching' and 'show ip traffic', one after
another, can be found zipped up in this file:
http://www.mtcnet.net/~fbulk/show_interfaces_switching_ip_traffic.zip

I also dropped the two ACLs we have on our Ethernet interface and it didn't
make a difference.

We have about 2013 active PPPoA connections and 35 PPPoE connections.

We haven't changed code or anything for 2+ years, before my time. We are
cutting some customers over from PPPoA coming in on an ATM interface to
PPPoE on Fa0/0 as we convert them to a FTTH installation, but that's perhaps
been 25 connections or so.

I would welcome any ideas anyone has. I would like to avoid upgrading to a
G1 or G2 if I could.

Kind regards,

Frank

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