[Kea-users] Kea VM sizing ?

[Wlodek Wencel]

Hey,

we don't have such document yet, but I can point you to our recent 
performance tests report, which on first page described hardware used 
and in most charts it adds memory and cpu usage. It also describe multi 
threading settings (it may differ between systems)

But I will give you small "it depends", mostly it depends on 3 factors, 
traffic characteristics you expect (how often clients ask for lease), 
lease backend you use and roughly how many clients are in your network

* db backends (mysql and pgsql) needs more cpu cores but less memory and 
are generally slower than memfile

* memfile needs more memory especially if you are handling huge number 
of clients, and over all CPU usage on system is smaller (you run just 
Kea not additional database)

report: https://reports.kea.isc.org/performance/stable/2.0.2/report.html

Thanks for using Kea,
Wlodek Wencel
QA Engineer,
ISC

On 08/04/2022 23:07, David Ramsey wrote:
> Is there any virtual machine sizing data available for ISC Kea DHCP ?
>
> In particular I don't know how to spec out RAM and # vCPUs..
>
> I realize "it depends", of course, but are there any ballpark guides 
> or formulas anywhere?
>
> Thanks, --David
>