Excessive Memory Utilization
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Much like a PC, router performance can suffer if it lacks sufficient available memory. For example, perhaps you install a version of Cisco IOS on a router, and that router does not have the minimum amount of memory required to support that specific Cisco IOS image. Even though the router might load the image and function, its performance might be sluggish. Assuming that a router does have the recommended amount of memory for its installed Cisco IOS image, consider the following as potential memory utilization issues.

Memory Leak

When a router starts a process, that process can allocate a block of memory. When the ...

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