[j-nsp] 5k Policers for client bandwith limits

[Philippe Pegon]

Pajlatek wrote:
> Hello ,

Hi,

> My company is buying a M10i router and we need to limit traffic for our clients.
> Anyone know how this abount (5k) of policers per IP/32 will couse impact on preformance?
> 
> I hope it wont be more than: :)
> % top
> CPU states:  0.3% user,  0.0% nice,  1.5% system,  0.6% interrupt, 97.6% idle
>   
> Peter

we have 3k policers on a M20, and I can say it doesn't hurt performance. 
It's performed by the asic on the pfe. It's probably similar on the M10i.

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Philippe Pegon