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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Regarding global BGP community values
"Alex P. Rudnev" wrote: > The growth itself do not cause the problems, but in conjunction with the > poor router implementation (which cause 60,000 routes to use 30 MB of the > RAM - that means 500 bytes for every prefix -:) and numerous memory leaks > in the router implementation cause the problem. If we look around, we'll > see existing computers (including embedded ones) have not CPU and memory > problems, and all problems we see with the routers are mainly caused by > the bad implemented text. I, and the rest of the Internet community, would like to invite you to start a router company and show us how it can be done with far less memory. ;-) More seriously, you might take a look around and note that there are not a great deal of difference in the amount of memory needed to support a prefix across the various well-known implementations. Which is not to say that we're blameless, just that a lot of good people have worked hard and are all equally incompetent at conserving memory while simultaneously producing a scalable, stable, feature-rich implementation. Regards, Tony
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