Extreme BlackDiamond

Mon Oct 13 22:07:04 UTC 2003

bgp scanner cpu usage == number of neighbors * number of routes in table

lots of neighbors would cause this, for longer periods.  If running 
SUP1A/MSFC this could be worse than with MSFC2 (slightly more CPU 
power), and much worse than SUP2 I'm guessing.

Tom (UnitedLayer) wrote:

>On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
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>>Maybe you could expand on the BGP scanner problems - we haven't seen
>>them all the time we've been running 6500 native with full routes (about
>>1.5 years now).
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>BGP Scanner taking up close to 100% of CPU on a box periodically.
>GSR doesn't seem to do it, but a buncha other cisco boxes do.
>Its more irritating than anything else, especially when customers complain
>that when they traceroute they see ~200ms latency to the router...
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