bsnmpd & BGP full view

[Eugene Grosbein]

Hartmut Brandt wrote:

> > Is there a way to reduce bsnmpd's CPU & memory usage
> > for BGP router using full view?
> >
> > I do not need to deal with routing table via SNMP.
> > SNMP is needed to monitor interface byte counters only via mrtg.
> >
> > bsnmpd grows upto 18Mb for FreeBSD 6.4 and worse,
> > it hogs CPU while bgpd obtains full view.
> >
> 
> Hmm. I just had a look and the version in 6.4 already has the optimized
> route table (you may confirm that:
> contrib/bsnmp/snmp_mibII/mibII_route.c should include sys/tree.h).
> It takes 36 byte per route on a 32-bit machine and should take 52 byte
> on a 64-bit one. The only way to reduce memory consumption considerably
> that I can see is to use the kernel routing table directly, but this
> requires to implement the GETNEXT operation in kernel.
> 
> In any case it should re-read the kernel table only every 10 minutes and
> in the mean time monitor the routing socket to update its copy of the
> table. If of course someone is doing a lot of updates on
> the kernel table it will receive all these changes and apply them to its
> copy of the routing table. If the latter is a problem you could disable
> the routing socket interface and could just rely on the 10
> minute re-reads.

Thank you very much. How do I disable this interface for bsnmpd?

> Between these re-reads you would not see changes to the
> routing table through SNMP.

That's OK for me - I don't look at routing table through SNMP at all :-)
 
> BTW: how many routes do you have? When I introduced the optimized
> routing table I tested with 150k routes which was reported to be
> reasonable at that time.

More than 271k prefixes.

Eugene Grosbein