bird-lg, another looking glass

[Job Snijders]

Hi Ondrej,

On 7 aug. 2012, at 12:51, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:

> So BIRD there just receives several full BGP feeds through EBGP multihop session
> and exports nothing?

Spot on. 

> Just curious, could you send me an output of
> 'show memory' BIRD command and also memory estimate of BIRD from the OS
> (using ps, top or something like that)?

Sure. 

job at lg01:~$ birdc show memory
BIRD 1.3.7 ready.
BIRD memory usage
Routing tables:    816 MB
Route attributes:  580 MB
ROA tables:        192  B
Protocols:         276 kB
Total:            1397 MB

job at lg01:~$ birdc6 show memory
BIRD 1.3.7 ready.
BIRD memory usage
Routing tables:     21 MB
Route attributes:   65 MB
ROA tables:        192  B
Protocols:         294 kB
Total:              86 MB
job at lg01:~$ 

job at lg01:~$ ps axuw | grep /usr/sbin/bird
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root       774  0.1 71.5 1477084 1468756 ?     Ss   Jul27  29:21 /usr/sbin/bird -d
root       783  0.0  4.5 101544 93148 ?        Ss   Jul27   6:22 /usr/sbin/bird6 -d

job at lg01:~$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          2003       1720        283          0          7         51
-/+ buffers/cache:       1662        341
Swap:          486         30        456
job at lg01:~$ 

All system statistics are available here: http://public01.infra.ring.nlnog.net/munin/infra.ring.nlnog.net/lg01.infra.ring.nlnog.net/

The machine's sole purpose is to run the bird and bird6 instances, it does not run any other services (except puppet, small MTA and SSH) 

Kind regards,

Job