Hi,
After MUM in Budapest I've upgraded my BGP router from 3.30 to 4.17 - and since that time I was very happy with resoults (for example prefixes where downloaded faster). But yesterday I had a problem with loging to router from bgp. Also from ssh and later mac-telnet.
After few hours I was able to log in for couple of minutes - and router with 1gb of ram mine had only 127 mb free (only routing, 2 full prefix tables).
So - your solution will be to upgrade to 5.x or ..... ?
M.