[ixpmanager] route server prefixes views and memory usage

[Nick Hilliard]

This has been rewritten in v5.x, which is due within a couple of weeks 
(barry is out on annual leave at the moment, hence the delay in shipping 
it).  I think the best thing would be to wait until it's released and 
re-evaluate then.

Nick


Athanasios Douitsis wrote on 17/04/2019 09:29:
> Greetings to everyone,
> 
> I am sure many recipients on this list have clients that announce many
> thousands of prefixes through their BGP peerings. At GR-IX, we have
> observed that such clients can overwhelm the "Route Server Prefixes"
> view with relative ease. This typically results in PHP throwing an error due
> to the maximum allocated memory size being exceeded, and the entire page
> comes back blank in the browser.
> 
> One obvious solution is to increase the PHP memory limit, but this does
> not negate the fact that the above mentioned view and its corresponding
> controller allocate memory in copious amounts. In case of multiple users
> hitting that view simultaneously, this can be rather taxing on the
> overall RAM usage.
> 
> I was wondering whether anyone else is aware of or is encountering
> this problem. And, of course, whether there is some other elegant
> solution that hitherto eludes us.
> 
> Kind regards,
>