[c-nsp] OSPF Convergence time on Dynamips

Christopher.Marget at usc-bt.com Christopher.Marget at usc-bt.com
Wed Oct 13 10:12:33 EDT 2010


> Why ospf takes so long to load when labbing on dynamips? Particulary in lan
> segments it almost takes forever ,if anyone has any method to improve the
> convergence time, I would love to hear it!

The performance bottlenecks in my dynamips environment have been:
1) idlepc (already mentioned)
2) disk performance

I got a huge performance boost when I moved the dynamips directory to a reasonably fast disk subsystem.

/chris



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