[c-nsp] ASR-1001 bgp memory usage

[Christian Kratzer]

Hi,

On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 09:25:46PM +0200, Christian Kratzer wrote:
>> I will definetely want to do more research on this and open a case with our
>> cisco contacts. We do not have redundant IOS processes as I was able to
>> verify now and the box has 4 GB of ram so I would expect to see 2 GB for
>> IOS on accounts of above posting but we are only seeing 1 GB usable ram.
>
> The wonders of modern software architecture.
>
> Could someone explain to me again what's so great about IOS XE, and why
> IOS XR or NX-OS or anything else halfway decent is not used on these
> platforms, except "because another business unit made it"?

it runs Lunix and it's a PC:

 	Cisco IOS Software, IOS-XE Software (X86_64_LINUX_IOSD-UNIVERSALK9-M),
 	Version 15.1(1)S, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
 	Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
 	Copyright (c) 1986-2010 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
 	Compiled Mon 22-Nov-10 12:33 by mcpre

 	Cisco IOS-XE software, Copyright (c) 2005-2010 by cisco Systems, Inc.
 	All rights reserved.  Certain components of Cisco IOS-XE software are
 	licensed under the GNU General Public License ("GPL") Version 2.0.  The
 	software code licensed under GPL Version 2.0 is free software that comes
 	with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  You can redistribute and/or modify such
 	GPL code under the terms of GPL Version 2.0.  For more details, see the
 	documentation or "License Notice" file accompanying the IOS-XE software,
 	or the applicable URL provided on the flyer accompanying the IOS-XE
 	software.

at least they try hard to maintain the illusion that you are working on a regular IOS box.

Greetings
Christian

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