[j-nsp] MX RE how fast is slow

[Mike Williams]

Sorry, the commit time is fine, couple seconds tops.

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After that the RE goes off and and runs the 700k routes it has already got in 
inet.0 through the policy, "repopulating" the 2 other RIBs. It's this which 
takes the time.

The fact it takes several minutes to run is only a moderate annoyance.
Especially now others have confirmed that the MX80 really isn't that fast at 
all.

On Thursday 08 September 2011 14:19:19 Scott T. Cameron wrote:
> What you're saying isn't too clear by "churn through that job".
>
> Do you mean when your upstream routing sessions are coming up, it takes 15
> minutes to process all the routes?
> Do you mean commit?
>
> Scott
>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Mike Williams 
<mike.williams at comodo.com>wrote:
> > 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
> >
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> > Mike Williams
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