Test the policy-map size against the CAM space for a specific port-pipe or all port-pipes using thesecommands:• test cam-usage service-policy input policy-map {stack-unit } number port-setnumber• test cam-usage service-policy input policy-map {stack-unit } allThe output of this command, shown in the following example, displays:• The estimated number of CAM entries the policy-map will consume.• Whether or not the policy-map can be applied.• The number of interfaces in a port-pipe to which the policy-map can be applied.Specifically:• Available CAM — the available number of CAM entries in the specified CAM partition for the specifiedline card or stack-unit port-pipe.• Estimated CAM — the estimated number of CAM entries that the policy will consume when it isapplied to an interface.• Status — indicates whether the specified policy-map can be completely applied to an interface in theport-pipe.– Allowed — indicates that the policy-map can be applied because the estimated number of CAMentries is less or equal to the available number of CAM entries. The number of interfaces in theport-pipe to which the policy-map can be applied is given in parentheses.– Exception — indicates that the number of CAM entries required to write the policy-map to theCAM is greater than the number of available CAM entries, and therefore the policy-map cannot beapplied to an interface in the specified port-pipe.NOTE: The show cam-usage command provides much of the same information as the test cam-usage command, but whether a policy-map can be successfully applied to an interface cannot bedetermined without first measuring how many CAM entries the policy-map would consume; thetest cam-usage command is useful because it provides this measurement.• Verify that there are enough available CAM entries.test cam-usageExample of the test cam-usage CommandDell# test cam-usage service-policy input pmap_l2 port-set 0 | port pipePort-pipe | CAM Partition | Available CAM | Estimated CAM | Status=====================================================================0 L2ACL 500 200 Allowed(2)Specifying Policy-Based Rate Shaping in Packets PerSecondConfiguration of rate shaping in packets per second (pps) for QoS output policies is supported on theplatform.You can configure rate shaping in pps for a QoS output policy, apart from specifying the rate shapingvalue in bytes. You can also configure the peak rate and the committed rate for packets in kilobits persecond (Kbps) or pps.Committed rate refers to the guaranteed bandwidth for traffic entering or leaving the interface undernormal network conditions. When traffic propagates at an average rate that is less than or equal to theQuality of Service (QoS) 729
