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CFBMC-3679: BMC 18.3 and lower, BMC 19.1 observed low memory causes BMC to reboot

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  • AFF A1K, AFF A90, AFF A70, AFF C80, AFF A50, AFF A30, AFF A20, AFF C60, AFF C30
  • ASA A1K, ASA A90, ASA A70, ASA A50, ASA A30, ASA A20
  • FAS90, FAS70, FAS50

 
  • “Service Processor Offline” risk has been reported on a node:

Risk          - Service Processor Offline
Impact Area   - Availability
Severity      - Error
State         - New
Source        - Cluster-01
Cluster Name  - Cluster
Cluster FQDN  - 10.XXX.Y.ZZZ
Trigger Condition - Status of the service processor with address 10.XXX.Y.ZZZ is offline.
 
  •  "{}SP-LATEST-SYSTEM-EVENT-LOG{}" reports the following events:

Record 659: Sun May 18 13:59:24.992508 2025 [BMC.notice]: Freed Memory after dropping page_cache:16948 kB
Record 660: Sun May 18 19:59:23.409714 2025 [IPMI.warning]: Reached near_low threshold.Increase Monitor Freq
Record 661: Sun May 18 19:59:23.474974 2025 [IPMI.critical]: Low Memory Warning: 33088
Record 662: Mon May 19 07:59:23.885660 2025 [IPMI.critical]: Rebooting BMC due to low memory

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