[j-nsp] MX80 BGP performance after reboot

[David Miller]

On 2/19/2013 6:22 AM, Robert Hass wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Sebastian Wiesinger
> <juniper-nsp at ml.karotte.org> wrote:
>> This is really frustrating and limits the scope where we can put the
>> MX80 platform. Would it have been so much more expensive to put a
>> faster CPU/RE into that thing? Or is this just a case of diversifying
>> the product line?
> 
> It's not about slow CPU. MX80 has very fast PPC (fastest from it's like)
> processor but RPD code sucks.  Same family was used eg.  in RSP720 in Cisco
> 7600 which is much faster - but it's probably becouse IOS preforms better
> than JunOS in terms of performance/scheduling on PPC platform.
> 

Last I checked, MX80 was only using a single core of the dual core PPC
CPU - because JUNOS (32 bit) cannot gracefully handle SMP.

-DMM