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hoolio's avatar
hoolio
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Mar 12, 2010

Performance of an external datagroup versus a local datagroup?

Hi,     Is there any expected difference in performance of a ~10k list of networks/hosts if the datagroup is defined in an external file versus locally, directly in the bigip.conf? This is...
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Leonardo_Souza
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Jul 10, 2017

The original question was from 2010, so answering Brad new update, and consequently 2010 question. :P

 

I can provide a theoretical answer, but you will have to test in practice and compare the speed.

 

From a TMM point of view, a local datagroup and an external datagroup should be the same, they should both be cached (not sure if in each TMM, or MCPD). So, the speed should be the same.