[111670] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network equipments process utilization
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elmar K. Bins)
Tue Feb 10 04:56:13 2009
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:56:07 +0100
From: "Elmar K. Bins" <elmi@4ever.de>
To: Adam Armstrong <lists@memetic.org>
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Adam Armstrong <lists@memetic.org>, nanog@nanog.org
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lists@memetic.org (Adam Armstrong) wrote:
> >>> 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.
That's why I wrote "with SUPs" (and not RSPs). RSP is fairly new, and
they got it right this time.
