Exaggerated precautions & warnings of using Debug commands


Since I entered the cisco world, I have read and heard again and again on how much precautions need to be taked to use any debug command to troubleshoot network events. But when I have personally checked, for using just one debug feature [eg. debug ip eigrp summary], I have observed that only it hardly takes 1-2% cpu in doing that. Why is it that networkers have been giving exaggerated warnings for the use of debug cmds. The result of this is that debug has become ‘USELESS’ in real life. While every networker has the knowledge that he shouldn’t do it where the cpu going above 90%

Why does Cisco even mention about a feature like debug with fearful warnings which keep networkers from even using it in the first place. Why don’t cisco upgrade CPU’s of devices to support this ? Although the prices are exorbitantly high, CPUs are hardly updgraded, they are still under 1 Ghz single core. Upgrading router/switch performance is no big challenge for cisco.

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