[j-nsp] Need suggestions..

[Kevin Wormington]

Here is ours on 9.6R1.3, two full feeds, approx 500 logical interfaces

inet.0: 305813 destinations, 604735 routes (305813 active, 0 holddown, 1 
hidden)


Routing Engine status:
     Temperature                 19 degrees C / 66 degrees F
     CPU temperature             16 degrees C / 60 degrees F
     DRAM                       768 MB
     Memory utilization          95 percent
     Model                          RE-5.0
     Start time                     2009-10-02 20:21:49 CDT
     Uptime                         124 days, 15 hours, 52 minutes, 58 
seconds
     Last reboot reason             Router rebooted after a normal shutdown.
     Load averages:                 1 minute   5 minute  15 minute
                                        0.00       0.00       0.00


sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
>> We have 4 M7i's with RE-400's and 768M RAM and have never had a problem with 
>> taking full routes (we are at 55% memory usage right now).
>>
>> With all of the comments on this topic, should we be worried?
> 
> What JunOS version are you running?
> 
> This is an M7i with RE-400, a full Internet routing table,
> 
> inet.0: 314795 destinations, 629302 routes (314784 active, 0 holddown, 19 hidden)
> 
> a handfull of MPLS L3VPNs (around 3K routes here) and a few interfaces,
> running JunOS 9.5R3.7. Memory usage:
> 
> Routing Engine status:
>     Temperature                 33 degrees C / 91 degrees F
>     CPU temperature             30 degrees C / 86 degrees F
>     DRAM                       768 MB
>     Memory utilization          94 percent
>     Model                          RE-5.0
> 
> I'd say *any* RE-400 box with a full routing table and a recent JunOS
> version is reason for worry. We have been unpleasantly surprised a
> few times (boxes starting to show swap usage).
> 
>> Our units push ~200Mbit traffic, so they are nowhere near capacity CPU wise.
> 
> Packet forwarding is done in hardware on this platform, the CPU is not
> involved.
> 
> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no
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