[j-nsp] DRAM for M7 / crash of M7

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

> The reason I wrote is, that we have a M7 with 256 MB DRAM. Yesterday I  
> configured three iBGP sessions and one eBGP session. In total I got  
> around 600000 routes from which 260000 were active. The receiving and  
> advertising process was finished also the best path determination.  
> After a few minutes I checked back on the router which is located in a  
> datacenter, but I got no reaction from it, also no ping or trace  
> reaction.

No problem on an RE-400 with 768 MB memory:

inet.0: 268328 destinations, 536540 routes (268323 active, 0 holddown, 5 hidden)
              Direct:      8 routes,      7 active
               Local:      6 routes,      6 active
                OSPF:    300 routes,     67 active
                 BGP: 535963 routes, 267982 active
              Static:     31 routes,     31 active
               IS-IS:    230 routes,    230 active
                RSVP:      2 routes,      0 active

top shows 84 MB inactive and 117 MB free memory.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no