[j-nsp] bgp summary outq

[Eric Van Tol]

Hi all,
I noticed this morning that all my IPv6 BGP neighbors have what appear to be thousands of messages in the 'OutQ'.  It's only IPv6 neighbors.  The numbers continue to climb and I'm curious as to why.  I'm not dropping sessions and I can't imagine that the v6 route table fluctuates so much that all these messages would queue up:

ber2.ss.sls.md# run show bgp summary    
Groups: 6 Peers: 8 Down peers: 0
Table          Tot Paths  Act Paths Suppressed    History Damp State    Pending
inet.0            644649     322548          0          0          0         24
inet6.0                4          2          0          0          0          0
Peer                     AS      InPkt     OutPkt    OutQ   Flaps Last Up/Dwn State|#Active/Received/Accepted/Damped...
xxxx:xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:d040        1234     168393     172216       0       1     7w5d20h Establ
  inet6.0: 1/2/2/0
xxxx:xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:d041        1234     205620     210491       0       1     9w3d23h Establ
  inet6.0: 1/2/2/0
xxxx:xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:d044        1234       2431       2433       0       2    18:35:32 Establ
  inet6.0: 0/0/0/0

I'm running 9.5R4.3 on various platforms (M-Series / MX-Series).  Is this normal?  If it is, I guess I just never noticed it.  None of my v4 neighbors show this behavior.

-evt