Minimalist BGP Anycast Lab Built from VMs?

Alex Bligh alex at alex.org.uk
Mon Oct 3 13:45:38 CEST 2016


> On 3 Oct 2016, at 08:32, Jan Matejka <jan.matejka at nic.cz> wrote:
> 
> OTOH, the memory consumed by 100 Bird instances is still consumed, you
> just save the memory and power for running more instances of operating
> system.

Actually only the memory for the data is 'still consumed'. The code
pages should be shared between instances assuming the same bird
binary is run in each.

Code pages are also potentially shared between VMs with kernel
samepage merging, but that won't work AFAIK with Virtualbox on
OS-X.

-- 
Alex Bligh






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