Re: Extreme BlackDiamond

[Jason LeBlanc <jml () packetpimp org>]

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 () nethelp no wrote:
>  
>
> > 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).
> >    
>
> 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...
>