Re: BGP and memory

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck Nether net>]

        Or buy third party memory instead of supporint
Ron's children, or his stock portfolio ;)

        - 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)
>
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