Description


Upon route injection on QFX series platform, RE memory utilization can increase


Below is an example scale for which utilization is 81%


BGP v4: ~125k routes

BGP v6: ~50k routes

IS-IS: ~3.5k v6 routes

OSPF:~6.5K

LDP:~3.5k

PIM:~1.5k routes


user@qfx5100> show chassis routing-engine | match "Memory"

Memory utilization 81 percent


Once the route scale is reduced, say to less than 100k in total, we could see memory dropped to 71%


user@qfx5100> show chassis routing-engine | match "Memory"

Memory utilization 71 percent

Symptoms

Increase in RE memory upon increasing route scale

Solution

This is expected behaviour. Users are recombed to use show pfe route summary hw command to monitor active and free memory for route scale


Modification History

2024-12-13 : Article Created