Excessive CPU usage on a switch can lead to decreased network performance and faults, affecting the stability and reliability of communication. This document provides a detailed explanation of the common causes, impacts, and troubleshooting methods for excessive CPU usage in. The CPU becomes too busy when either an IOS process consumes too much CPU time or the CPU receives too many packets from the switching hardware. When either of these two CPU consumers requires the CPU resource to the detriment of the other, then the CPU is too busy. Cisco recommends that you have knowledge of these topics: The information in this document is based on these software and hardware versions: The information. A switch that has Network Analytics Engine (NAE) agents installed is experiencing high CPU usage, high memory usage, or both, and overall performance is affected. The NAE is attempting to monitor too many switch resources. In addition, it provides typical examples and references to maintenance engineers.
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