Re: hardware recommandation for internet scale route-reflectors

[Nicolas Piatto via Bird-users]

Hello Maria,

Le 08/11/2022 à 16:50, Maria Matejka a écrit :

Hello!

I wonder if this would fit for BIRD router box, with some room for future 
growth in the DFZ.

- CPU: Xeon gold 3,2GHz 8cores/16threads

- RAM: 32 or 64gb

How would BIRD behave with such HW specs ? is it overkill ?

The memory is probably overkill for RR in single-table setup, you'll fit in 4G 
with a large margin.

CPU is OK. With no or minimal filters, also the convergence time isn't going to 
be more than several minutes on this scale.

With the multithreaded version (now 3.0-alpha0), you're gonna get convergence 
times in tens of seconds, probably.

Maria

Thanks for the feedback ! that's helpful.

I'll try to get one machine to make my test on then.





Thanks and best regards!

Nicolas

I assume also that 3.0-alpha is not suitable for production yet :) but I'll try both anyway.

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