[111669] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network equipments process utilization
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Armstrong)
Tue Feb 10 04:51:11 2009
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:51:58 +0000
From: Adam Armstrong <lists@memetic.org>
To: "Elmar K. Bins" <elmi@4ever.de>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20090210090058.GR91662@ronin.4ever.de>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Elmar K. Bins wrote:
> hank@efes.iucc.ac.il (Hank Nussbacher) wrote:
>
>
>>> - slow-CPU boxes like everything Cisco with SUPs, since the
>>> CPU load _always_ jumps to 100% for short periods of
>>> time - BGP needs something calculated ;-) I get interested
>>> whenever CPU load _stays_ high
>>>
>> Yeah - Cisco would like to know why as well:
>> http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac50/ac207/crc_new/university/RFP/rfp07026.html
>>
>
> I know ;-)
>
> But: This is not a churn problem, it's a problem of slow CPUs in
> allegedly big-and-fast boxes. I'd like a NPE-G2 blade for my
> 76's, as RP. Still, this is getting off-topic.
>
The MSFC4 in the RSP720 has a 1.2GHz 8548 PPC whereas the NPE-G2 has a
1.67GHz 7448 PPC.
I'd guess the performance isn't all that far apart, especially as the
MSFC4's processor isn't doing any forwarding.
adam.
