How much RAM for Full Internet tables

Mehdi Rukmawan rukmawans at gmail.com
Mon Sep 7 04:35:35 CEST 2020


Hello,

What OS dan Bird version did you use?
Currently, I'm using Ubuntu 18.04

regards

On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 8:46 AM James Swineson <bird-users at public.swineson.me>
wrote:

> I wonder if your bird (or other program) is leaking memory. Here's my bird
> receiving v4 and v6 near-full table and doing some filtering:
>
> bird> show route table global_v4 count
> 806364 of 806364 routes for 806364 networks in table global_v4
> bird> show route table global_v6 count
> 89509 of 89509 routes for 89509 networks in table global_v6
>
> This is a 1G RAM VPS, bird virtual memory usage is <400M.
>
> # free -wh
>               total        used        free      shared     buffers
>  cache   available
> Mem:          987Mi       612Mi       181Mi        11Mi        36Mi
>  156Mi       226Mi
> Swap:         4.0Gi       190Mi       3.8Gi
>
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2020, at 08:45, Mehdi Rukmawan wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is anyone here know, how much RAM needed for BIRD to receive all full
> > routes Internet table?
> >
> > My bird consumes around 20G of RAM for just 1 full routes 800k
> >
> >                       total        used        free      shared
> > buff/cache   available
> > Mem:            31G         20G        9.4G        1.2M        1.6G
> >     27G
> >
> > Is this as expected ? or we can fine-tuning Bird ?
>
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