[j-nsp] Multi Core on JUNOS?

Olivier Benghozi olivier.benghozi at wifirst.fr
Fri Oct 2 20:41:09 EDT 2015


I have heard that:
1) forget it about PowerPC CPUs (MX 80/104).
2) JunOS 15.1 uses a more recent FreeBSD 10 base (as said in the doc) with SMP activated; but I guess that as long as rpd won't be recoded accordingly, it won't be any faster.

> Le 2 oct. 2015 à 23:33, Phil Rosenthal <pr at isprime.com> a écrit :
> 
>> On Oct 2, 2015, at 5:11 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com <mailto:colton.conor at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Does anyone have an update on when Juniper will release SMP (symmetrical
>> multi processor) aka the ability to use multiple cores? Do you think the
>> second core on the MX80 or MX104 will ever be used? Does the RE-2000 in the
>> MX240/480 have one or 2 cores?
>> 
> 
> I have heard that this is planned for Junos 15.
> 
> -Phil
>>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 11/May/15 13:27, Olivier Benghozi wrote:
>>> http://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos13.3/topics/reference/configuration-statement/routing-edit-system-processes.html
>>> <
>>> http://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos13.3/topics/reference/configuration-statement/routing-edit-system-processes.html
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> "Statement introduced in Junos OS Release 13.3 R4"
>>> 
>>> We decided not to enable this now because I understand the plan is for
>>> 64-bit mode to become the default in later versions of Junos.
>>> 
>>> Mark.



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