... Fine on SRX, MX, and older 12.3 on EX4200, at last. Just started an EX3300 in 12.3R12-S1 today with precision-timers configured: 0 (zero) keepalives were sent, session flapped every 90 seconds. What a good job and a fine quality check...
> Le 25 avr. 2016 à 18:43, Olivier Benghozi <[email protected]> a > écrit : > > This knob has been in all our confs for years (from 12.3 to 14.2). > At least it doesn't seem to do anything bad. > >> Le 25 avr. 2016 à 17:16, Adam Chappell <[email protected]> a écrit : >> >> Does anyone have positive or negative experience with this feature in 14.1 >> please? >> >> Currently in a situation troubleshooting consequences of high CPU usage >> with a number of aggravating factors. Most sensitive to the scarcity of CPU >> resources however is a number of BGP sessions with aggressive timers. >> >> Quite often a commit operation seems to make rpd block sufficiently enough >> (or indeed it's already starved out by other processes) to neglect >> keepalives for these unforgiving BGP sessions and we end up losing them. >> >> Juniper have recommended to us consideration of "precision-timers", a >> global BGP knob which, if I understand it well, offloads all of the crucial >> BGP session management functionality to a different rpd thread in order to >> leave the main thread able to handle config requests etc. - not too >> dissimilar to the session management separation in openbgpd etc. >> >> The Juniper documentation says this feature is recommended for low hold >> timers, and from what we can ascertain rpd is able to transition to >> off-thread session management without a down/up which is pretty neat. >> >> I'm aware of PR1044141 which apparently causes pain when used in >> conjunction with traceoptions, but I'm keen to understand if others have >> operational experience. >> >> We're also making inroads to lower CPU demands through the use of >> distributed PPM etc., but the regular pattern I tend to see there is that >> this doesn't fly once the PPM'd protocol has a security knob added, eg. >> adding authentication to BFD, VRRP etc. >> >> -- Adam. >> _______________________________________________ >> juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp

