Cisco Bug: CSCup78975 - MALLOC_FAILED errors generated with 'mcastfwd' process
Last Modified
Sep 09, 2019
Products (6)
- Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches
- Cisco Nexus 5548P Switch
- Cisco Nexus 5596UP Switch
- Cisco Nexus 5020 Switch
- Cisco Nexus 5548UP Switch
- Cisco Nexus 5010 Switch
Known Affected Releases
5.1(3)N2(1)
Description (partial)
Symptom: A Nexus switch may exhibit MALLOC_FAILED errors in the 'mcastfwd' process similar to the following - %MCASTFWD-4-SYSLOG_SL_MSG_WARNING: MCASTFWD-3-MALLOC_FAILED: message repeated 18 times in last 10 sec %MCASTFWD-3-MALLOC_FAILED: mcastfwd [3427] m_copyin failed in mfwd_ip_main() Conditions: There are generated within the process while memory and IGMP statistics may not show any issues.
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