[ Insert something with Murphy's law and the send command ]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:06:04PM +0100, Erik Romijn wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:32:28AM -0500, Larry J. Blunk wrote:
> > perhaps an indexed array of peer IP/AS numbers. 
> 
> Nice idea. But how much would we save?
> [..]
> We save about 0.85Mbyte here. A RIS RIB dump on the biggest machine is
> 240M uncompressed. So we would save 0.35%.

I'm mixing up again here. That RIS RIB dump is not 200K routes, that
would be a FIB dump. The RIB dump is approximately 30M entries. So
that's 1440Mbits of data on peer IP/AS without indexing (with
asn16/ipv4).

With indexing, it's 480Mbits. So we go from 180MB to 60MB.

So we save about 120MB of the 240MB. That's 50%. For asn16/ipv4.
If we get to asn32/ipv6, this will even be a lot more.

Note that this may not neccesarily decrease the size of the compressed
dump files. I can imagine that gzip/bzip already do something like this.

Short: yes, it seems to save significant data, unless I miscalculated
again :-)

cheers,
-- 
Erik Romijn                 RIPE NCC jr. software engineer
http://www.ripe.net/        Information Services dept.

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