[j-nsp] Managing large route-filter-lists

[Phil Shafer]

Brian Rak writes:
>Trip report:
>
>Don't use these for massive IRR configs.
>
>There's seemingly no garbage collection done on IRR configs, so you'll 
>be having to wipe the database via shell and start over around once a 
>week (we've got a config that's about 100k lines, and we only change the 
>BGP peers that actually have changes in IRR)
>
>They have a size limit of 400mb, and that's pretty easy to hit. Once you 
>hit that size limit, you'll start getting weird errors back when 
>changing the normal configuration (it *seems* like it ends up committing 
>a fraction of the ephemeral configs, so for us it complaints about 
>missing communities and policy statements)
>
>I'm considering changing over to prefix-lists (instead of 
>route-filter-lists), and moving to the dynamic DB instead. I'm not even 
>sure if this will help :/

This is definitely not expected behavior.  Please reply offlist
with details and we start investigating the issues you are seeing.

Thanks,
 Phil