Why does the "show adjacency" command take so long to run (in the order of minutes) on Cisco IOS Software, 7200 Software (C7200P-SPSERVICESK9-M), Version 12.4(4)XD5, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)? The router is an Internet edge router running BGP? What do the "(5)", "(10003)", or "(75845)" mean after the addresses? It seems to enumerating mostly addresses on a directly connected /23 network. CPU is < 2% and memory don't seem to be cause for this.
r-x-y-edge1#sh adjacency
Protocol Interface Address
IP GigabitEthernet0/2 x.67.155.9(5)
IP GigabitEthernet0/2 x.67.155.8(5)
IP GigabitEthernet0/2 x.67.155.11(5)
IP GigabitEthernet0/2 x.67.155.10(5)
IP GigabitEthernet0/2 x.67.155.13(5)
IP GigabitEthernet0/2 x.67.155.12(5)
IP GigabitEthernet0/2 x.67.155.15(5)
IP GigabitEthernet0/3 172.31.4.130(10003)
IP Serial1/0 point2point(75845)
...
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CPU utilization for five seconds: 2%/1%; one minute: 3%; five minutes: 3%
Processor Pool Total: 864815572 Used: 547631528 Free: 317184044
I/O Pool Total: 67108864 Used: 4520592 Free: 62588272
Is there a way to interrupt the execution of this command short of closing the session as Ctrl-^x doesn't have any effect?
Best Answer
Have you checked to see if you have domain lookup disabled? (
no ip domain lookup)It could be that your command is taking so long to come back as it is trying to resolve all of the IP's to hostnames.