is not possible to run junos 64 bits on mx80 ? PPC dual core supports it ?
why not to use 8 GB dram instead of 2 only ? Sent from my iPhone On 19/02/2013, at 12:59, David Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/19/2013 6:22 AM, Robert Hass wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Sebastian Wiesinger >> <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp

