How to get the Memory Utilization of a Cisco IOS
Memory, RAM, is one of those resources that is extremely valuable to IOS. Monitoring memory utilization can be done with the user mode commands show processes memory and show memory. Figure 5-16 shows part of the output from the show process memory command.
qutter(config)# show processes memory
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Allocs Allocated Frees Freed Process
(bytes) (bytes)
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617 10566425 8 1040 *System Main*
0 0 0 0 IP Address Assign
5751 671436 4046 385406 tmatch compile thread
0 0 0 0 CMGR Server Process
0 0 0 0 Chunk Manager
2 321064 0 0 IPsec message handler
0 0 2 8324 vpnfo_thread_unsent
0 0 0 0 Reload Control Thread
0 0 0 0 SMTP
0 0 0 0 L2TP mgmt daemon
0 0 0 0 RADIUS Proxy Time Keeper
0 0 0 0 vpnfo_thread_msg
2 112 0 0 CF OIR
4 2440022 14 66460 uauth
0 0 0 0 udp_timer
0 0 0 0 IKE Daemon
0 0 0 0 udp_thread
7 16672 0 0 listen/telnet
0 0 0 0 arp_forward_thread
0 0 0 0 uauth_urlb clean
0 0 0 0 icmp_thread
1 8 0 0 listen/https
0 0 0 0 QoS Support Module
32 16336 7 336 telnet/ci
0 0 0 0 CMGR Timer Process
1 2097188 0 0 PIX Garbage Collector
22052 1074942 21568 933040 CTM message handler
11 961 1 7 NIC status poll
0 0 0 0 aaa
0 0 0 0 Logger
0 0 0 0 ppp_timer_thread
29 81971 4 65971 ci/console
0 0 0 0 vpnfo_thread_timer
0 0 0 0 Uauth_Proxy
0 0 0 0 CTCP Timer process
0 0 0 0 RADIUS Proxy Event Daemon
2 228 1 8 tcp_thread
0 0 0 0 DHCPD Timer
0 0 0 0 block_diag
0 0 2 8324 557mcfix
0 0 0 0 tcp_fast
0 0 0 0 pm_timer_thread
0 0 0 0 riprx
105 14840 2888 23104 emweb/https
0 0 0 0 Client Update Task
2 8324 4 16648 vpnlb_thread
0 0 0 0 Crypto PKI RECV
0 0 0 0 IP Thread
6 38950 0 0 route_process
0 0 0 0 IP Background
0 0 0 0 Thread Logger
0 0 0 0 vpnlb_timer_thread
1 40 4 16648 update_cpu_usage
0 0 0 0 vpnfo_thread_sync
0 0 0 0 L2TP data daemon
3 5672 0 0 RADIUS Proxy Listener
204564 96322730 204270 94676066 Dispatch Unit
0 0 0 0 557statspoll
6 5372 0 0 Session Manager
0 0 0 0 tcp_slow
0 0 0 0 IKE Timekeeper
0 0 0 0 riptx
2888 23104 0 0 Timekeeper
0 0 0 0 dbgtrace
0 0 0 0 Checkheaps
4 360 48 2880 arp_timer
0 0 0 0 Crypto CA
84 5588 1 328 ARP Thread
quitter(config)#