hardware recommandation for internet scale route-reflectors

[Nicolas Piatto]

Hello Maria,

Le 08/11/2022 à 16:50, Maria Matejka a écrit :
> Hello!
>
>> I wonder if this would fit for BIRD router box, with some room for future growth in the DFZ.
>>
>> - CPU: Xeon gold 3,2GHz 8cores/16threads
>>
>> - RAM: 32 or 64gb
>>
>> How would BIRD behave with such HW specs ? is it overkill ?
> The memory is probably overkill for RR in single-table setup, you'll fit in 4G with a large margin.
>
> CPU is OK. With no or minimal filters, also the convergence time isn't going to be more than several minutes on this scale.
>
> With the multithreaded version (now 3.0-alpha0), you're gonna get convergence times in tens of seconds, probably.
>
> Maria


Thanks for the feedback ! that's helpful.

I'll try to get one machine to make my test on then.


I assume also that 3.0-alpha is not suitable for production yet :) but 
I'll try both anyway.


Thanks and best regards!

Nicolas

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