Symptom
The %PLATFORM-3-ELEMENT_WARNING alerts were enhanced with top suspects, however this information is not printed with %PLATFORM-3-ELEMENT_CRITICAL log messages.
Example logs:
Chassis 1 R0/0: smand: 1/RP/0: Used Memory value 92% exceeds warning level 88%. Top memory allocators are: Process: pubd_rp_0. Tracekey: 1#f9ba4f27c77a5ab7dd3926ac3f375b7d Callsite ID: 2286555145 (diff_call: 17301). Process: linux_iosd-imag_rp_0. Tracekey: 1#51d42307bfc2e89cb7a394e64ed371df Callsite ID: 2083309571 (diff_call: 12946). Process: sessmgrd_rp_0. Tracekey: 1#e633a3693c691bef8e97aace9fc92499 Callsite ID: 2023785472 (diff_call: 12260).s
Mar 7 00:01:18.913: %PLATFORM-3-ELEMENT_CRITICAL: Chassis 1 R0/0: smand: 1/RP/0: Used Memory value 94% exceeds critical level 93%s
Conditions
IOSXE device with memory usage above critical threshold.
Workaround
Collect "show process memory platform accounting" and "show process memory platform sorted" in order to determine the top memory consumers.
