On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Mack McBride wrote:
Our experience was that XR on the PRP-2 was less than stellar other users may have a different experience.
Generally Cisco devices (apart from some of the very latest platforms) have reeeeaaaaallllyyyy slow flashdrive IO. Since XR accesses the flash drive all the time (and has a lot of data), this makes it slow as well.
I've been told the upcoming replacement RP for CRS-1 has SATA SSD and is a magnitude (or more) faster than the old RP when it comes to installation and booting due to more CPU and especially a more sound IO hardware subsystem.
Even a Cisco 1841 loads IOS many times faster from a USB stick compared to the built in CF, and a 7200 boots faster over ftp than from the built in flash cards.
It seems Cisco has finally realised the problems with their IO subsystem so I hope newer devices will work a lot better.
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