[6658] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP and memory size
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Craig)
Wed Jan 1 12:51:34 1997
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 1997 12:37:28 -0500
From: Robert Craig <rcraig@cisco.com>
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
I hope the smiley face was omitted accidentally!
The bug report was junked (by the way, we don't junk legitimate
bug reports) because the router in question was a 7200 with 32M
of memory taking full routing from several peers. It simply
didn't have enough memory. There was no evidence of a memory leak.
Needless to say, if there had been a leak, it would have
had high priority.
The gent who opened the bug report in the first place was
"unfamiliar" with the environment. :-)
Robert.
Hank Nussbacher wrote:
>
> Perhaps Cisco is just trying to force us to buy more memory:
>
> ID: 79764
> Feature-set: bgp
> Title: Memory Leak in BGP Router process
> Reported: 11.1(7) 11.2(2)
> State: J
>
> There appears to be a Memory Leak in BGP Router Process.
>
> Notice the State. It is J - which stands for Junked - which means they
> will not fix this since it isn't viewed as an important problem.
>
> Hank
