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Service plane heavy mode: No CPU warning logs. Data plane heavy mode: %BGP-5-ADJCHANGE: neighbor 192.169.204.2 vpn vrf 204 Up %PLATFORM-4-ELEMENT_WARNING: R0/0: smand: RP/0: 5-Minute Load Average value 9.31 exceeds warning level 9.30. <<<<<<< it seems the warning thresholds were not recalculated. %SYS-6-TTY_EXPIRE_TIMER: (exec timer expired, tty 0 (0.0.0.0)), user %PLATFORM-4-ELEMENT_WARNING: R0/0: smand: RP/0: 5-Minute Load Average value 9.86 exceeds warning level 9.30. <<<<<<
HT enabled.
It should be a cosmetic issue, which can be cleared with a logging discriminator.
# Service Plane Heavy Mode D4_C8300_DUT#sh clock *09:35:27.902 UTC Wed Jul 19 2023 sh platform software cpu allo CPU alloc information: Control plane cpu alloc: 0,8 Data plane cpu alloc: 4-7,12-13 Service plane cpu alloc: 1-3,9-11 Template used: CLI-service_plane_heavy D4_C8300_DUT#show platform hardware qfp active datapath infrastructure sw-cio Credits Usage: ID Port Wght Global WRKR0 WRKR1 WRKR2 WRKR3 WRKR10 WRKR11 Total 1 rcl0 4: 5002 0 0 3 0 0 115 5120 1 rcl0 8: 5056 0 0 0 0 0 64 5120 2 ipc 1: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 vxe_punti 1: 469 0 0 0 0 0 43 512 4 fpe0 1: 1940 0 0 0 0 12 96 2048 5 fpe1 1: 1941 0 0 0 3 8 96 2048 6 fpe2 1: 1952 0 0 0 0 0 96 2048 7 fpe3 1: 1952 0 0 0 0 0 96 2048 8 fpe4 1: 1952 0 0 0 0 0 96 2048 9 fpe5 1: 1952 0 0 0 0 0 96 2048 10 bp0 1: 1952 0 0 0 0 0 96 2048 10 bp0 2: 1952 0 0 0 0 0 96 2048 Core Utilization over preceding 104.2045 seconds ------------------------------------------------ ID: 0 1 2 3 10 11 % PP: 6.60 8.40 6.47 8.97 0.00 0.00 % RX: 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 8.21 % TM: 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 6.22 0.00 % COFF: 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 % IDLE: 93.40 91.60 93.53 91.03 93.78 91.79 D4_C8300_DUT#sh clocklog | i Jul.19.09.3 *Jul 19 09:33:22.964: %PLATFORM-4-ELEMENT_WARNING: R0/0: smand: RP/0: 5-Minute Load Average value 9.99 exceeds warning level 9.30. <<<<<<< *Jul 19 09:35:40.897: %IOSXE_PLATFORM_RESOURCE_DCA-5-DCA_ENABLE_NOTICE: Platform Resource profile service-plane-heavy : start *Jul 19 09:35:41.912: %IOSXE_PLATFORM_RESOURCE_DCA-5-DCA_ENABLE_NOTICE: Platform Resource profile service-plane-heavy : complete *Jul 19 09:35:48.297: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by console # Data Plane Heavy Mode D4_C8300_DUT#sh platform software cpu allo CPU alloc information: Control plane cpu alloc: 0,8 Data plane cpu alloc: 1-7,9-13 Service plane cpu alloc: 0,8 Template used: CLI-data_plane_heavy D4_C8300_DUT#show platform hardware qfp active datapath infrastructure sw-cio Credits Usage: ID Port Wght Global WRKR0 WRKR1 WRKR2 WRKR3 WRKR4 WRKR5 WRKR6 WRKR7 WRKR8 WRKR9 WRKR10 WRKR11 Total 1 rcl0 4: 5051 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 68 5120 1 rcl0 8: 5056 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 64 5120 2 ipc 1: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 vxe_punti 1: 480 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 512 4 fpe0 1: 1952 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 96 2048 5 fpe1 1: 1950 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 96 2048 6 fpe2 1: 1952 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 96 2048 7 fpe3 1: 1952 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 96 2048 8 fpe4 1: 1952 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 96 2048 9 fpe5 1: 1952 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 96 2048 10 bp0 1: 1952 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 96 2048 10 bp0 2: 1952 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 96 2048 Core Utilization over preceding 1546.3617 seconds ------------------------------------------------- ID: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 % PP: 3.00 9.10 2.97 3.38 5.18 1.99 4.63 5.77 5.48 3.30 0.00 0.00 % RX: 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 9.33 % TM: 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 6.44 0.00 % COFF: 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 % IDLE: 97.00 90.90 97.03 96.62 94.82 98.01 95.37 94.23 94.52 96.70 93.56 90.67 D4_C8300_DUT#sh platform resources rp active Slot number 0 online active Number of cores 14 CPU Utilization CPU User System Nice Idle IRQ SIRQ IOwait Total 0 2.60 1.60 0.00 95.79 0.00 0.00 0.00 4.20 1 99.30 0.69 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 2 97.70 0.50 0.00 1.80 0.00 0.00 0.00 98.20 3 94.70 1.20 0.00 4.10 0.00 0.00 0.00 95.90 4 54.14 1.99 0.00 43.85 0.00 0.00 0.00 56.14 5 50.95 2.20 0.00 46.84 0.00 0.00 0.00 53.15 6 45.04 12.11 0.00 42.84 0.00 0.00 0.00 57.15 7 96.40 3.60 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 8 2.30 1.80 0.00 95.90 0.00 0.00 0.00 4.10 9 69.60 1.60 0.00 28.80 0.00 0.00 0.00 71.20 10 96.50 0.90 0.00 2.60 0.00 0.00 0.00 97.40 11 42.04 1.70 0.00 56.25 0.00 0.00 0.00 43.74 12 73.32 1.89 0.00 24.77 0.00 0.00 0.00 75.22 13 99.30 0.70 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 *Jul 25 10:22:23.713: %BGP-5-ADJCHANGE: neighbor 192.169.204.2 vpn vrf 204 Up *Jul 25 10:32:27.054: %PLATFORM-4-ELEMENT_WARNING: R0/0: smand: RP/0: 5-Minute Load Average value 9.31 exceeds warning level 9.30. <<<<<<< it seems the warning thresholds were not recalculated. *Jul 25 10:34:10.953: %SYS-6-TTY_EXPIRE_TIMER: (exec timer expired, tty 0 (0.0.0.0)), user *Jul 25 10:42:37.065: %PLATFORM-4-ELEMENT_WARNING: R0/0: smand: RP/0: 5-Minute Load Average value 9.86 exceeds warning level 9.30. D4_C8300_DUT#sh clock *10:50:26.036 UTC Tue Jul 25 2023 *Jul 25 10:52:47.074: %PLATFORM-4-ELEMENT_WARNING: R0/0: smand: RP/0: 5-Minute Load Average value 9.98 exceeds warning level 9.30. - The core allocations look to be correct when switching between DPH and SPH modes - Data plane CPU cores are mostly > 90% idle and not much traffic through it, still router is triggering the CPU load logs. - The warning might be issued more often or under slightly lower loads than usual due to the threshold levels not getting updated, but it should not affect the performance of the device