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

Vladimir S. Blazhkun v.blazhkun at pcs-net.net
Fri Mar 17 06:35:42 EST 2006


> Hello ,
> 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

This is the load average of the routing engine (it doesn't performs
traffic policing).

5k policers will not affect perfomance of the router seriously because
they will be performed by integrated ASIC.

> Peter

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