Cisco Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2(33)SRE

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The Configuration Partitioning feature provides modularization (“partitioning”) of the running 
configuration state to provide granular access to the running configuration in Cisco IOS software. 

This feature is enabled by default in Cisco IOS software images that include this feature.

The configuration state of a device is retrieved dynamically whenever a user issues the show 
running-config command. When the Configuration Partitioning feature is enabled, the system groups 
the configuration state of the device into parts (called “partitions”) so that only the configuration state 
the user wishes to review is retrieved when generating a displayed list of commands in the running 
configuration. This feature improves performance for high-end systems with complex configurations 
because only a part of the running configuration state is processed when generating the running 
configuration command list, as opposed to the existing method of processing the entire system 
configuration state. 

Default configuration partitions are provided by the introduction of this feature; other Cisco IOS 
software features may define their own command partitions in later releases.

This feature was introduced in software images for the Cisco 7600 series in Release 12.2(33)SRB. 
Additional release integration updates will be added to the 

 as they become available.