[ixpmanager] Sysctl tweaks?

[Joe Wooller]

Thanks Nick, 

I am going to be running it on ubuntu precise,
now I just need to get my head around the config structure :P

Joe

On 15/04/2013, at 5:18 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick at inex.ie> wrote:

> On 15/04/2013 10:53, Joe Wooller wrote:
>> I was curious as to what flavour you run BIRD on (assuming linux here)
>> and what sysctl tweaks do you use?
>> I am about to jump in to playing with BIRD as a replacement for our
>> Route Servers down under, we currently use a vendor..
>> 
>> If there is anyone else on list using BIRD I would love to know your
>> thoughts/experiences/etc too.
> 
> At the moment, we're running bird 1.3.1 on freebsd 8.2/amd64 with nothing
> special except for a kernel which supports tcp MD5 checksums.  I.e. no
> sysctl tweaks.  The configuration sizes are:
> 
>> ferris# wc bird-rs2-*.conf
>>    2716   78577 1190603 bird-rs2-vlan10-ipv4.conf
>>    1780   13030  122797 bird-rs2-vlan10-ipv6.conf
>>    1345   15133  217224 bird-rs2-vlan12-ipv4.conf
>>    1031    3227   24602 bird-rs2-vlan12-ipv6.conf
> 
> BIRD will also work fine on any recent version of linux.
> 
> This has turned out to be a very stable configuration for us.  Our BIRD
> daemons were last restarted in August 2011 and we haven't had any problems
> with them since then.  We'll probably do some maintenance later this year,
> but this is just for operating system upgrades.
> 
> It shouldn't be necessary to do any particular tweaking because bird isn't
> exporting any prefixes to the kernel forwarding table.  It's running as a
> plain old daemon with a certain memory footprint and a bunch of open tcp
> sockets.  I.e. its requirements are very modest.
> 
> Nick
> 
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