[j-nsp] Optimizing the FIB on MX

[Mark Tinka]

On 18/Feb/16 16:12, Saku Ytti wrote:

> Define underpowered?
>
> MX80 has 8572, also sported by platforms such as sup7, sup2t, nexus7k,
> me3600x, sfm3-12 at alu
> RSP720, EX8200 RE have even slower spec cpu 8548
>
> MX104 has faster cpu than any of these, P5021. Yet RSP720 runs circles
> around MX104 in terms of BGP performance.
>
> I'd say it is underpowered for JunOS (All PPC's are, but is that HW or
> SW issue, that's debatable), but it really can't be considered
> particularly slow cpu in this market generally, especially during its
> launch year.

The MX104's RE is faster than the MX80, but still extremely slow for
daily use :-(.

As you say, Junos suffers quite a bit on PPC platforms.

Mark.