[nsp] Is 128MB enough for a full BGP table on a 7206VXR?

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Interestingly enough, I have a 3640 with 128M and 2 full feeds and it has
plenty of free DRAM (~ 18M).  However, I have a 7500 with 2 full feeds and
256M and it only has about 80M free.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave O'Shea" <daveoshea at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Vincent De Keyzer" <vincent at dekeyzer.net>; <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: [nsp] Is 128MB enough for a full BGP table on a 7206VXR?


> Barely. Looking at a 7206 that has one full and one
> partial BGP feed, cef but no netflow or accounting, I
> see 114mb used, running 12.2(15)something-or-other.
>
> With a carefully selected release from somewhere
> around 12.0(5) or so, you might be able to get away
> with it. but if you can scrounge the extra money, I
> would really recommend 256mb.
>
> --- Vincent De Keyzer <vincent at dekeyzer.net> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have just loaded a full BGP table on a Cisco
> > 7206VXR (NPE-300) with 128MB
> > RAM.
> >
> > However, I would like your opinion before bringing
> > it into the prod network:
> > is it enough to avoid problems?
> >
> > And BTW, what is this "I/O-2" memory that I see down
> > there?
> >
> > Vincent
> >
> > __________________________________
> >
> > Router#sh memory
> >                 Head    Total(b)     Used(b)
> > Free(b)   Lowest(b)
> > Largest(b)
> > Processor   61D4AC00    95114240    73125232
> > 21989008    21971088
> > 21965068
> >       I/O   20000000    33554452      227740
> > 33326712    33326712
> > 33325532
> >     I/O-2    7800000     8388620     7926532
> > 462088      462088
> > 461756
> >
> >
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