Displaying Buffer Size Information

You can display a report that contains information about the GS2000 line card buffer sizes. The information provided by the Memory report reflects activity occurring on the line card's management processor only. It does not include data about memory in the line card's forwarding system.

Procedure:

1 Select Telnet to the Module.
2 At the Main prompt (Main>), enter Monitor.
3 At the Monitor prompt (Monitor), enter memory.
4 Press Return. The report and the Monitor prompt are displayed. See the example.

Example:

Monitor> memory
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Global buff sizes: Data = 4478, Hdr = 25, Wrap = 0, Trail = 8, Total = 4516

Information Displayed Description
Data Maximum data link packet size of all interfaces.
Hdr Sum of the maximum hardware, MAC, and data link headers of all interfaces.
Wrap Paremeter not currently used by the GS2000 line card and is always zero.
Trail Sum of the largest MAC and hardware trailers for interfaces.
Total Size of the largest packet buffer.