Cisco Cisco Nexus 5010 Switch Guida Alla Risoluzione Dei Problemi

Nexus 5500 Failed to Allocate Shared Memory
Error

Document ID: 116478

Contributed by Ming Tang and Shelley Bhalla, Cisco TAC Engineers.
Sep 13, 2013

Contents

Introduction
Requirements
Components Used
Problem
Solution

Introduction

This document describes the process to solve this error message:

MCASTFWD−3−NO_SH_MEM: mcastfwd Failed to allocate shared memory

mfwd_mrib_get_route_buffer()

Requirements

Cisco recommends that you have knowledge of Cisco NXos CLI.

Components Used

The information in this document is based on these software and hardware versions:

Any Nexus 3000 Chassis

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Any Nexus 5500 Chassis

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The information in this document was created from the devices in a specific lab environment. All of the
devices used in this document started with a cleared (default) configuration. If your network is live, make sure
that you understand the potential impact of any command.

Problem

The switch reports this error:

MCASTFWD−3−NO_SH_MEM; mcastfwd [3208] Failed to allocate shared memory
mfwd_mrib_get_route_buffer()

Solution

This error message might be due to two problems: