Dell Force10 S4810P Configuration Manual page 841

• Exception indicates that the number of CAM entries required to write the policy-map to the CAM
is greater than the number of available CAM entries, and therefore the policy-map cannot be
applied to an interface in the specified port-pipe.
Note: The command
show cam-usage
whether or not a policy-map can be successfully applied to an interface cannot be determined without first
measuring how many CAM entries the policy-map would consume; the command
because it provides this measurement.
Figure 39-18. test cam-usage Command Example
FTOS# test cam-usage service-policy input pmap_l2 linecard 0 port-set 0
Linecard | Port-pipe | CAM Partition | Available CAM | Estimated CAM | Status
===============================================================================
0 0
provides much of the same information as
L2ACL 500
test cam-usage
test cam-usage
200 Allowed(2)
Quality of Service (QoS) | 841
, but
is useful