BGP and memory consumption

From: MADMAN (dmadlan@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Apr 17 2002 - 18:47:05 GMT-3


   
  I think I may have posted previously that 128M of memory in a router
that is receiving full routing and has two neighbors is sufficient,
well no more. I got an email from a customer with some console messages
whining about memory. Looking at the router and proc memory everything
looked fine but it had only 250K free memory. The other router in this
dual homed connection was still at 2.1M, the only differance is it's BGP
table consumes about 2M less of memory which isn't suprising, I wouldn't
expect them to be identical.

  To make a short story long I would recommend 256M is such a scenerio
hereafter!!

router#sh proc mem | inclu BGP
  95 0 85105648 249492 >>79397260<< 0 0 BGP
Router
  96 0 65580 5508720 6828 0 0 BGP I/O
  97 0 0 0 9828 0 0 BGP
Scanner

  Dave

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David Madland
Sr. Network Engineer
CCIE# 2016
Qwest Communications Int. Inc.
dave@interprise.com
612-664-3367

"Emotion should reflect reason not guide it"



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