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Re: BGP and memory
From: "Ron Buchalski" <rbuchals () hotmail com>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 16:28:00 PDT
From: Jared Mauch <jared () puck Nether net> To: Ron Buchalski <rbuchals () hotmail com> CC: alex () virgin relcom eu net, nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: BGP and memory Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:55:57 -0400 Or buy third party memory instead of supporint Ron's children, or his stock portfolio ;)
Memory's cheap, as long as you continue to buy the right boxes for it! -rb
- jared On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 10:58:46AM -0700, Ron Buchalski wrote: >> The problem is, it's probably cheaper to engineer a box with more low cost > memory than it is to pay a high salary to a programmer to write small code.> > At least, it is in _this_ part of the world... ;-) > > -rb > > >From: "Alex P. Rudnev" <alex () virgin relcom eu net> > >To: nanog () merit edu > >Subject: BGP and memory > >Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 18:22:30 +0400 (MSD) > > > > > >Amazing fact: > > > >Come back to this talks about BGP and memory, I calculated the size of > >total BGP information in the 'show ip bgp' cisco output. No doubt, it's> >not all attributes printed here, but on the other hand it's the text view,> >not the binary presentation. > > > >Results are: > > > > 118113 lines > > 10065161 bytes (10Mb) > > > >100 bytes/route , in the text form, average. > > > >Compare to > > > >65955 network entries and 159898 paths using 12154642 bytes of memory > >31322 BGP path attribute entries using 2800660 bytes of memory > >14718 BGP route-map cache entries using 235488 bytes of memory > >1712 BGP filter-list cache entries using 27392 bytes of memory > >178 received paths for inbound soft reconfiguration > >BGP activity 540738/474776 prefixes, 5007746/4847848 paths > >3037709 prefixes revised. > > > >and note - this is BINARY form... > >> >No, if someone want to implement the core BGP in the 8 MB ram, he can do> >it as well (through the cost of his work + cost of debug should be much > >greater than the cost of 128RAM memory -:)). > > > >Aleksei Roudnev, Network Operations Center, Relcom, Moscow> >(+7 095) 194-19-95 (Network Operations Center Hot Line),(+7 095) 230-41-41,> >N 13729 (pager) > >(+7 095) 196-72-12 (Support), (+7 095) 194-33-28 (Fax) > > > > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared () puck nether net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine. END OF LINE |
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Current thread:
- BGP and memory Alex P. Rudnev (Oct 13)
- Re: BGP and memory Phillip Vandry (Oct 13)
- Re: BGP and memory Ryan K. Brooks (Oct 13)
- Re: BGP and memory Alex P. Rudnev (Oct 13)
- Re: BGP and memory jlewis (Oct 13)
- Re: BGP and memory Ryan K. Brooks (Oct 13)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: BGP and memory Ron Buchalski (Oct 13)
- Re: BGP and memory Jared Mauch (Oct 13)
- Re: BGP and memory Ron Buchalski (Oct 13)
- Re: BGP and memory Phillip Vandry (Oct 13)