Drew,* Responses inline in italics..*
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Drew Weaver <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey there, > > We've probably all seen this issue before, with BGP scanner eating up a > large amount of CPU time on a powerful supervisor/route processor, etc. My > question is, how are you supposed to accurately monitor the > performance/utilization of the system when this thing is pushing it up to > 80% on a regular basis, * Baselining. Since you know BGP scanner runs once every minute, only CPUs spikes that are inconsistent with 'expected' periodic BGP scanner activity should raise red flags.* > alternatively, does anyone know if they're ever going to release a product > that doesn't have this quirk? *BGP scanner is a housekeeping maintenance activity by the main system processor. As such, its 'impact' on the 'system' should continue to diminish as more platforms become modular (distributed architecture) and/or switch packets in hardware. * -Eninja _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
