Marian Marinov/HackMan

Yesterday I had a very interesting conversation about congestion control and how it affects long lived connections.
So I decided to do a very simple comparison. I created a 100MB file(dd if=/dev/zero of=test-file bs=1M count=100).

Scalable:

test-file 100%[==============================================>] 100.00M 5.13MB/s in 23s
2016-02-28 19:40:55 (4.35 MB/s) - ‘test-file’ saved [104857600/104857600]

Illinois:

test-file 100%[==============================================>] 100.00M 4.20MB/s in 24s
2016-02-28 19:21:57 (4.13 [...]

Bird’s memory usage with 8 BGP sessions (6 of which full BGP tables):

root@sfgw:~# birdc show memory
BIRD 1.5.0 ready.
BIRD memory usage
Routing tables: 160 MB
Route attributes: 136 MB
ROA tables: 112 B
Protocols: 68 kB
Total: [...]

I finally decided to request full BGP tables from all of my ISPs, so I can easily change the preferred path to certain destinations.
However this meant that now I have to monitor both the state of the BGP sessions, but also the amount of routes that I receive from my neighbors.
Before my days with full [...]

Since I’m a long user of Xchat I decided to upgrade it and found that it does not compile with the recent glib library.
The problem is that the new versions of the glib library introduced one limitation for includes. Now you only have to include glib.h and every more specific inclusion breaks the builds.
Even thou [...]