How much RAM for Full Internet tables

James Swineson bird-users at public.swineson.me
Mon Sep 7 04:43:31 CEST 2020


Debian 10, Bird 2.0.7.

I've had similar results on Bird v1.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2020, at 10:35, Mehdi Rukmawan wrote:
> 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
> > > 
> > > birdc -v
Is this as expected ? or we can fine-tuning Bird ?


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