[f-nsp] BI8K system-max settings

[Stephen J. Wilcox]

Hi Bill,
  I dont know the answer to your specific question, I've not touched those 
values personally, but I was told previously that they are maximum limits that 
the router will be allowed to use and that actually increasing them does not 
affect the way the router assigns memory on startup.

ie if you increase a parameter massively it wont use more memory, it will just 
allow the system to use more resources.. which will then use the memory.

Steve

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, bill hulley wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying to get some useful documentation about the various system-max
> system defaults settings out of Foundry (via our reseller) and have
> not been getting
> much luck.   Maybe someone here on the list might know.
> 
> We have a BI8000 (JetCore) in production running 07.6.05aT53 and a couple of
> FastIron 400s (JetCore) in our lab running the same software.   I've been using 
> the FastIrons to do some memory sizing of the system-max parameters in 
> preparation of a reload of our production switch.
> 
> Most of the system-max parameters are pretty obvious (numbers of vlans, routes
> etc),   others have documentation, for example ip-filter-sys
> session-limit etc.  But I
> haven't been able to find anything about the ip-filter-port parameter.
> 
> Does anyone have any information they've received from Foundry about this
> parameter,  what its used for and why it appears to have such a large impact on 
> system memory usage.
> 
> Any replies appreciated (including complaints about the quality of
> Foundry documentation)
> 
>   -- bill.
> 
>