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Tadaoki_237078
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Feb 01, 2018

iRules on different platforms

Hello everyone,   I know that there are changes made to commands and events depending on the OS version,   but are there any difference to how iRules work in terms of platform?   For exam...
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Kai_Wilke
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Feb 01, 2018

Hi Tadaoki,

 

the only iRule related difference between the individual plattforms is RAM and the CPU core number and their horse power.

 

  • More RAM allows you to store more iRule runtime data (e.g. [table], $variables, etc.)
  • More CPU horse power is always good and lowers processing latencies... ;-)
  • More CPU cores (aka. CMP-enabled or not) scales better but also introduces CMP-related challanges (aka. how can one CPU core talk to another core in a performant fashion).

Beside of those things, the execution of iRules makes no differences on different plattforms. The TMOS version and applied license has a much bigger impact...

 

Cheers, Kai