Heho, > fwiw using a VM for a border router seems a strange choice. Agree. It is called 'doing-stupid-things' for a reason. :-| ;-) 0:-)
> Also, having many routers in many networks fetch [...] Yes, and for my own systems I do just that with some added python code around it to make sure what I fetch from the cache makes sense ([1] in case anyone is Interested... still have to fix string handling -.-'); Yet, I cannot really tell people what to do on their own VMs. (Well, I can, but...) ;-) > You could periodically rsync it to permanent storage and use mount_mfs' > -P option to populate at boot. Really good point; I will give setting that up a try later today and add that to the blogpost. > BTW rpki-client is one of the (relatively few) cases where softdep is likely > to give > a significant improvement in performance. Also a good point. I think I will just bench through all the options (softdep, noatime, mfs, [...]) and write that down to have some comparison points. With best regards, Tobias [1] https://git.aperture-labs.org/AS59645/monitoring-tools/src/branch/master/other/update_rpki
