Symptom

++ Slow but steady increase in QFP DRAM utilization can be seen, eventually leading to high memory alerts, then a crash: ------------------ show platform resources ------------------ **State Acronym: H - Healthy, W - Warning, C - Critical Resource Usage Max Warning Critical State ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RP0 (ok, active) H Control Processor 42.13% 100% 80% 90% H DRAM 2788MB(70%) 3933MB 88% 93% H bootflash 2063MB(69%) 3005MB 70% 90% H ESP0(ok, active) H QFP H DRAM 212519KB(81%) 262144KB 85% 95% H <--- IRAM 213KB(10%) 2048KB 85% 95% H CPU Utilization 9.00% 100% 90% 95% H ++ Gathering data over time shows increase in allocations for NBAR_CVLA_ENTITY: Output from 'show platform hardware qfp active infrastructure cvla client handles' Entity name: NBAR_CVLA_ENTITY Handle: 0xe9978000 Number of allocations: 6530 Memory allocated: 1894048 ++ The following errors can be seen when QFP Memory utilization reaches the warning threshold (85% by default): %QFPOOR-4-LOWRSRC_PERCENT_WARN: R0/0: cpp_ha: QFP 0 DRAM(EXMEM) at 85 percent, exceeds warning level 85 %QFPOOR-4-TOP_EXMEM_USER: R0/0: cpp_ha: EXMEM_USER: CVLA, Allocations: 86, Bytes-Alloc: 66676336, Bytes-Total: 66736128

Conditions

Unknown at this time.

Workaround

Monitor QFP memory utilization with 'show platform resources' and schedule reloads to free memory when it gets high (85%+) to avoid unexpected reloads.

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