On 2/19/2013 6:22 AM, Robert Hass wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Sebastian Wiesinger > <juniper-...@ml.karotte.org> wrote: >> This is really frustrating and limits the scope where we can put the >> MX80 platform. Would it have been so much more expensive to put a >> faster CPU/RE into that thing? Or is this just a case of diversifying >> the product line? > > It's not about slow CPU. MX80 has very fast PPC (fastest from it's like) > processor but RPD code sucks. Same family was used eg. in RSP720 in Cisco > 7600 which is much faster - but it's probably becouse IOS preforms better > than JunOS in terms of performance/scheduling on PPC platform. >
Last I checked, MX80 was only using a single core of the dual core PPC CPU - because JUNOS (32 bit) cannot gracefully handle SMP. -DMM _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
