Re: BGP (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Thu, 10 Jul 1997 15:21:32 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Tom Samplonius shaped the electrons to say...
> Use a CPU utilization measuring system that measures idle time. That

We have no idle time. The way ComOS works is that anything will use 100%
of the CPU cycles *IF AVAILABLE*. It is a very efficient time shared
system - but it means monitoring is meaningless. And changing it would be
a gut level recode of the ComOS that has been working so well for so long.

> It would also kinda cool to have ComOS increment a counter everytime a
>packet is routed. Then later convert that into packets/second, every
>couple of minutes. That way you can gauge packet load.

Maybe, but personally I don't see this as being all that meaningful.

-MZ

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