I think the PFE ukern runs as a process in the hypervisor that uses another core and a few G of ram:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4479 root 20 0 16.7g 16g 26m S 500 53.0 114757:25 qemu-system-x86 21332 root 20 0 3008m 263m 215m R 135 0.8 30488:26 J-UKERN -- Tim On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 9:02 AM, Jason Lixfeld <[email protected]> wrote: > So the rest is for guest VMs then? > > > On Jun 27, 2018, at 9:57 AM, Tim Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Yeah 16G for the RE + I think you actually get 5 cores in the Junos VM: > > > > % sysctl -a | egrep -i 'hw.machine|hw.model|hw.ncpu' > > hw.machine: amd64 > > hw.model: QEMU Virtual CPU version 1.7.2 > > hw.ncpu: 5 > > hw.machine_arch: amd64 > > > > It's really fast though. Great little box so far. > > > > -- > > Tim > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 8:51 AM, Chris Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Once upon a time, Tim Jackson <[email protected]> said: > >>> Yes. Calling it decent is an understatement. It's really quick. It's a > >> Xeon > >>> E5-2608Lv4. > >> > >> Yep. The RE VM "only" gets half the resources (so 4 cores and 16G RAM), > >> but that is plenty good! It also has dual NVMe SSDs for storage. When > >> I upgraded JUNOS from 17.4 to 18.1, I think it only took about 3 minutes > >> from "request system reboot" until I could SSH back in to the RE > >> management ethernet. > >> > >> -- > >> Chris Adams <[email protected]> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp

