[j-nsp] memory usage on RE-5.0 (M7i)

[Michael Loftis]

--On March 20, 2006 8:49:40 AM +0100 Rutger Bevaart 
<rutger.bevaart at illian.net> wrote:

>
> Thanks for all the replies. I upped the RE to 768MB on friday and it's
> been at 50% usage since. This seems a  bit strange as it was at a steady
> 85% usage on 512MB which means memory usage went from 435 to 380MB. We've
> got 6 full and 1 partial feeds running on it.
>
> As we're at 50% now using 7.4, is there any benefit feature wise by going
> to 7.5? We use OSPF, BGP, JFlow and some firewall filtering on the box.

Probably not.  I've gotten reports from one of our upstreams of 10/100 PICs 
failing to auto-negotiate in 7.5 suddenly and they had to lock them all 
both ends to 100/FDX.

>
> Regards,
> Rutger Bevaart