Bruce Pinsky wrote: > A quick of a GSR that has 216K routes shows that the BGP router process is > holding 156MB of memory. > > 175 0 372897988 120493880 156407792 0 0 BGP Router > ^^^^^^^^^ > V AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down State/PfxRcd > 4 81 685748 19218 1958075 0 0 1w0d 216712
That's interesting. I have a 3660 with 256MB and it has 2 full tables: 165 0 2042211768 1569844820 135461708 0 0 BGP Router V AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down State/PfxRcd 4 7018 24269137 819807 116570581 0 0 1w4d 212728 4 65001 18741841 7237685 116570580 0 0 1d01h 213539 (both are eBGP for the record) This router used to have 3 full feeds. That said I would strongly advise against anyone else doing this. This was not a well-thought-out design (in fact I don't think thought was involved at all). This poor router doesn't have enough free RAM to run CEF. :-( Without CEF running I have 30MB free. Fortunately it's slated for the chopping block in the very near future. I have 2 other borders (7206VXR w/ a NPE-G1 and a 3845 each with 1 eBGP feed and a 4-member iBGP mesh) and each has 1GB and I wouldn't dare run anything less. I learned a hard lesson many years ago. When you buy a router, no matter what you currently plan on doing with it, you should always (ALWAYS!) max out the DRAM and flash. RAM requirements never decrease. Firmware files never get smaller. The more times I crack open the case of a router the more opportunity I have to screw it up (spill a drink in it, drop a screwdriver tip down onto the PCB, zap it with ESD, all of which I've seen or done personally). It's also certain that you'll end up doing something with the router that you never planned on using it for when you bought it; this will of course tax the RAM and flash in brand new ways. Spend a few more bucks up front and mitigate the potential for problems later. My $.02. Justin _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
