Hardware requirements for BIRD

[David S.]

Hi,

Here is my x86 router configuration:

OS: FreeBSD 10.2 64bit
Bird 1.6.3
CPU Intel E5-2609v2
Memory 16GB

Here is top result for bird:

27 processes:  1 running, 26 sleeping
CPU: 13.0% user,  0.0% nice,  1.8% system,  1.7% interrupt, 83.6% idle
Mem: 504M Active, 112M Inact, 875M Wired, 518M Buf, 14G Free
Swap: 3852M Total, 3852M Free

  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME    WCPU
COMMAND
 6278 root          1  52    0   455M   440M select  3   1:23  20.65% bird
 6294 root          1  20    0 60124K 48616K select  0   0:24   0.10% bird6


bird> show route count
1356504 of 1356504 routes for 633512 networks <<-- still updating the
routing table after restarting protocols

Your hardware is more than enough but if you consider to handle high
traffic or packets per second it's a different.




Best regards,
David S.
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On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 8:57 PM, Clément Guivy <clement at guivy.fr> wrote:

> Hello, I am considering the setup of BIRD as a router to handle our
> internet traffic. One information I fail to find is hardware requirements.
> My use case is as follows :
>
> -          Two transit providers, each sending a full internet view
>
> -          Two peerings on an IXP (less than 100k routes each)
>
> -          One iBGP session between the two BIRD routers
>
> -          One eBGP session to our internal network (advertising a
> default route and receiving less than 500 internal routes)
>
> -          Traffic would be less than 1Gbps but as I understand it, this
> is relevant to forwarding plane and therefore out of the scope of BIRD.
>
>
>
> Which kind of hardware would be fit for that ? especially regarding CPU
> and RAM. I was considering an entry-level server with low-end Xeon CPU
> (E5-2603, 1.7Ghz 6 cores) and 8GB RAM, does that look sufficient,
> insufficient, or overkill ? I can’t really tell. By the way, is BIRD able
> to use multiple cores ? and are there hardware requirements to be careful
> of, disregard CPU and RAM ?
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Clément Guivy
>
>
>
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