[c-nsp] SXJ - The good, the bad, the ugly?

[Tóth András]

CSCsw63003 is indeed not fixed in SXJ yet, however it's fixed in SXI6.

Andras


On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:
>
> On May 3, 2011, at 9:21 AM, Brandon Ewing wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 08:48:23AM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote:
>>> There is a memory leak that is not fixed if you run BGP.
>>>
>>> Jared Mauch
>>>
>>
>> Is this the same one that was present earlier in the SXI releases, where a
>> neighbor in Idle or Active states leaks memory?  I thought they had that
>> fixed around SXI4 or SXI5
>
> CSCsw63003
>
> Routing
>
> Continous BGP activity may result in increasing amounts of memory held
>
> Symptoms:
> Memory increase occurs in 'BGP Router' process due to BGP path attributes. Memory used by this process increases constantly and so do the BGP path attributes while the number of routes does not increase.
>
> Not sure why they don't call this a "leak" but apparently they have a different way to describe it.
>
> Basically, if you use BGP, don't use SXJ as it will leak itself to death over a period of time, possibly as short as 4 weeks with full routes.
>
> - Jared
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