[j-nsp] MX RE how fast is slow

[Mike Williams]

Hi all,

Recently a discussion touched on the routing engine speed of the MX series, 
but there wasn't much like a "real world" comparison.
So my question is, how slow is the RE on an MX80 compared to it's bigger 
brethren?

I ask because we find the MX80 slow, really slow.
As we've got 2 distinctly different traffic types, and 2 distinctly different 
upstreams (1Gbps and 10Gbps), we're using a rib group and policy to populate 
2 additional ribs with different local preferences applied to the learnt 
routes. Filters direct packets to the right table.
It'll take the RE a good 10-15 minutes to churn through that job, and that's a 
bit annoying when you make a small change to a unrelated policy!
Now, is that us being stupid, or the RE being slow? I know what I'd like to 
hear :)


Cheers

-- 
Mike Williams