GNS3 Hardware specs???

Hey guys I want to run GSN3 cause I love the GUI so you can make text descriptions
and cool topology maps..I have it installed on my laptop which has

2GB ram
duo core amd processor
and no antispyware/av running
just bare bones XP pro SP2

and man it eats up my CPU

I have tried Affinity configs and just locks up due to CPU maxed out

what hardware do i really need or what am i doing wrong?

thanks

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msteinhilber

I haven't got into dynamips very much aside from just testing with it before I just got remote power switches for my physical lab. But have you adjusted your idlepc values? If not, you will run into high CPU utilization with even a couple of routers.

Check out this thread for good idlepc values for various images:

http://7200emu.hacki.at/viewtopic.php?t=9

The rest of hacki's site has a lot of other great resources for dynamips/dynagen and GNS3 as well. I do remember reading several threads when I was researching things that there were a few people getting significantly higher CPU utilization running the same configuration through GNS3 vs just dynagen.

dynamik

Yea, it's your idlepc value. It'll use 100% unless you specify the value.

They have a relatively new "new users" tutorial up here: http://www.gns3.net/documentation

That'll show you how to set everything up.

itdaddy

wow thanks a lot cause man my laptop has some power and man 3 routers is bogging it down to a hault. i do not run any AV/AS like i said stripped down purely for GNS3

thanks so much man i missed that

will let you know how it turns out thanks men!

-robert

tiersten

Put AV on to it though.

itdaddy

I will be using Ubtuntu 8.04 (Hardy Haron) as Linux Power Horse .I have a 64-bit Intel Machine with Quad Core 2+ Ghz processor coupled with 8Gigs of physical RAM at my disposal. This helps me run full CCIE topology on One machine (using 10+routers ) , multiple vmware instances while conserving resources at my relatively low-end Windows laptop . If you have multiple pc’s , you can add all of them into one GNS3 topology using distributed approach as shown in this tutorial. This will ease-up burden on single pc and make your labs run faster and better.

I found this guys specs off of brainbump.net.. I was thinking that GNS3 needs this kind of machine for a ccie lab full no sheeet!

wow! i want to build this for my ohme GNS3 inthe works

tiersten

It just has more RAM than most people's machine. Everything else is standard.

networker050184

itdaddy wrote:

I will be using Ubtuntu 8.04 (Hardy Haron) as Linux Power Horse .I have a 64-bit Intel Machine with Quad Core 2+ Ghz processor coupled with 8Gigs of physical RAM at my disposal. This helps me run full CCIE topology on One machine (using 10+routers ) , multiple vmware instances while conserving resources at my relatively low-end Windows laptop . If you have multiple pc’s , you can add all of them into one GNS3 topology using distributed approach as shown in this tutorial. This will ease-up burden on single pc and make your labs run faster and better.

I found this guys specs off of brainbump.net.. I was thinking that GNS3 needs this kind of machine for a ccie lab full no sheeet!

wow! i want to build this for my ohme GNS3 inthe works

If he needs that much computing power to run ten routers hes doing something terribly wrong. I run about eight on a machine I have with a 1.7 ghz amd and 1 gig ram running vista. I don't use GNS3 though, just Dynagen.

JavonR

Just right click a router ---> Idle PC --> Select an idle pc value = fixed

itdaddy

Javon

I will have to try that

Tiersten

you are right 64bit Quad core; I run only duo core isnt duo core only 2 CPUs
while quadcore is 4 cpus???

and yeah GNS3 networker takes a butt load of processor power...

thanks wil have to try this; thanks a lot!

tiersten

itdaddy wrote:

you are right 64bit Quad core; I run only duo core isnt duo core only 2 CPUs
while quadcore is 4 cpus???

Yes. Quad core isn't that unusual these days however.

itdaddy

tiersten

Yeah my laptop is duo core.....but just from playing with IDL PC by right clicking
oh yeah I got 3 routers down even when I come back myvalues have to be recalc'd
each time i open the lab up again. is that normal cause i do the new project and
save config and it saves all my configs but i have to alwasy recalc all my IDLE PC
values is that normal..????

and what works best is i just keep doing it until my task manager perfmon say like 3 percent cpu
and it has been working take about 10 minutes for a big lab of 4 to 6 routers runnning
but i can get it lower my cpu amount ....
but I am going build me a quad core intel machine with sata drives and 1024 fsb speed
for sure. and then i will be ready. I think i can build it for 400.00 usd i think i have monitor
and kvm switch so just need the tower

power
ram
cpu
mobo
all ineed

i might do 8 GB of ram maybe or maybe only 4GB of ram

nel

Not to hijack the thread but i thought you required a lab for the CCIE do to the stuff you perform? is the CCIE possible using dynamips?

dynamik

nel wrote:

Not to hijack the thread but i thought you required a lab for the CCIE do to the stuff you perform? is the CCIE possible using dynamips?

Check out DT's post here: http://techexams.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=198109#198109

You'll still need switches.