[c-nsp] 'Number of Routes' Vs Ram

[Drew Weaver]

	Howdy, I realize that there is a direct correlation between the
number of routes a service provider receives from their transit provider
and peers and how much ram they will need for their routers. Has anyone
actually ever tried to figure this out actual numbers on this? We are
getting full routes from about 5 carriers split in more than one router
at the moment and at times it can be a little dicey with 256MB of ram
(the BGP router process uses quite a bit of processor memory at times)
and it is leading us to upgrade to 512MB, I am wondering if we may be
better off upgrading from the 12012s that we are using to 12812s or at
least 12412s altogether.

Thank you for your kind consideration.
Andrew