Bird and memory consumption

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 12:14:47PM +0300, Mikhail A. Grishin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How much memory the BIRD can eat?
>
> At startup (29Feb) it about 450Megs.
> Today:
>  PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
>  2385 root        1  44    0   843M   843M select 2  26:42  0.78% bird

There are buffers that are allocated when needed and not freed (they are
reused later). In your case (almost the same number of BGP protocols as
the routing tables) i wouldn't expect BIRD to grow more than 2-3 times
the 'basic memory consumption'.

> The "configure" command is applied one time per day.

This shouldn't matter.

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