On 12/01/2011 09:10 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, [email protected]<[email protected]> said:
While I agree that it's not optimal, but is it atypical? Isn't JunOS the
same? All the important things running in single flat process, which has
its own scheduling and memory management. Unix in the background being just
an afterthought, really a way to bootstrap it all up.
No, there are a bunch of separate Unix processes on JUNOS handling
different things.
rpd. 'Nuff said.
That's one process that handles a bunch of stuff (but far from
everything); that's hardly a "single flat process, which has its own
scheduling and memory management".
http://www.juniper.net/us/en/local/pdf/whitepapers/2000264-en.pdf
"""
The routing protocol process daemon (RPD) is the most complex process in
a Junos OS system. It not only contains
much of the actual code for routing protocols, but also has its own
scheduler and memory manager.
"""
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