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    Hi Mike,<br>
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    Saso is correct; we bumped into that one too.<br>
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    However, as long as you're running BIRD in a VM and OVS is outside
    the VM there's no issue.<br>
    <br>
    K.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08-07-2020 08:58, Saso Tavcar wrote:<br>
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      <div class="">There is a known issue with with Open vSwitch (OVS)
        performance with BGP.</div>
      <div class="">Even without OVS we hit IRQ (too many) issue on
        "physical" network in our KVM</div>
      <div class="">environment.</div>
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        <div class="">Official OVS quote:</div>
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          <pre class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">><i class=""> We'd accept patches to improve OVS's routing table code.  It's not
</i>><i class=""> designed to scale to 1,800,000 routes.  We'd also take code to suppress
</i>><i class=""> the routing table code in cases where it isn't actually needed, since
</i>><i class=""> it's not always needed.  But we can't take a patch to just delete it;
</i>><i class=""> I'm sure you understand.</i></pre>
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        <div class="">I tried to apply this patch at that time, but was
          already useless for newer versions:</div>
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        <div class=""><font class="" color="#0068da"><span class=""><u
                class=""><a
href="https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/attachments/20161123/5379b333/attachment.bin"
                  class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/attachments/20161123/5379b333/attachment.bin</a></u></span></font></div>
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        <div class="">Our workaround was to scale VM with 3 vCPU-s,
          since our average system load is 1.5 for BGP.</div>
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        <div class="">You can see what is happening:</div>
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              style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">[root@bgp1
              ~]# top</span></div>
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              class="" style="font-variant-ligatures:
              no-common-ligatures;">  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT   
              RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND               
                                                                       
                                                              </span></div>
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                class="">  654 root      10 -10 1284492   1.0g  20276 R 
                98.0  27.0   2513:01 ovs-vswitchd                      
                                                                       
                                                      </b></span></div>
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              root      20   0       0      0      0 S   2.0   0.0 
              24:45.60 ksoftirqd/1  </span></div>
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              style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">[root@bgp1
              ~]# ip route show</span></div>
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        <div class="">Routes being constantly added and deleted:</div>
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              ~]# ip monitor</span></div>
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              2620:11d:6000::/42 via 2a01:xxx:xxx::1 dev t2-v26-ha proto
              bird metric 1024 pref medium</span></div>
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      <div class="">Regards,</div>
      <div class="">saso<br class="">
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            <div class="">On 8 Jul 2020, at 08:05, Mike Neo <<a
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                <div class="">what is your experience with installing
                  bird on virtual server (ESXi)? Is there any limitation
                  of this kind of deployment for example problems with
                  performance etc.?</div>
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                <div class="">Regards,</div>
                <div class="">Mike</div>
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