BIRD cpu usage overload - question

Stefan Jakob stefan.jakob at de-cix.net
Fri Aug 24 14:41:14 CEST 2012


Am 24.08.12 14:08, schrieb Javor Kliachev:
> Hi All,
> 
> We would like to know how BIRD will distributed over few CPU cores?
> 
> What will happen when the bird process is under heavy CPU load.
> Whether the process will only use only one core or total load will be 
> distributed equally on all cores?
> 
> Thanks in advance!

On a 32bit and 64bit Debian Squeeze, we see it sticking on one core.
Luckily for BGP it is serving the keepalives even under heavy load.

Hth, SJ




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