[Xorp-users] Why Xorp so slow ?

[Ben Greear]

Sébastien Namèche wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We spent those last days experimenting Xorp, OpenBGP and Quagga.
>
> We found that Xorp takes a lot of time to construct the RIB and to  
> inject all prefixes to the kernel routing tables. For example, for the  
> same machine, same OS, this is the rough time needed to import the  
> global routing table from a peer just after the opening of the BGP  
> session :
>    - OpenBGP: less than 1 minute ;
>    - Quagga: between 2 and 3 minutes ;
>    - Xorp: 14 minutes.
>   
Can you compile xorp with debugging and run this test with oprofile 
enabled?  That should
give a good idea of where the performance bottlenecks are.

Thanks,
Ben

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