[c-nsp] ASR1002-X & (2) full BGP feeds

Mark Tinka mark.tinka at seacom.mu
Fri Mar 20 01:36:21 EDT 2015



On 19/Mar/15 15:19, Adam Greene wrote:
>
> -          Is 16GB RAM really necessary for (2) full BGP feeds in the real
> world? Seems like overkill to me. I seem to recall that when
> "soft-reconfiguration inbound" is enabled with (2) peers, it in effect
> causes 1.5x or 2x the amount of RAM to be used. However, even with this
> caveat, shouldn't 8GB RAM be sufficient?

I just max. out RAM on routers when purchasing. Saves me the hassle of 
future downtime, emergent situations and bloat in code.

Mark.


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