[Please don't cross-post. I've limited the response to "discuss".]
I'm not aware of any problems in that area, but that's an awfully old release. Do you still experience problems on more recent versions? --Justin On Mar 15, 2012, at 10:55 AM, junaid khalid wrote: > Hi > > I was running OVS (ovs-1.1.2 in kernel mode, on a core i7 machine with 4GB of > RAM) under several Gbps of load. I noticed some unexpected behavior; OVS > would disconnect from Controller (NOX 0.9 zaku) under heavy load conditions > and re-establish the connection when the load was reduced (the behavior did > not have a particular pattern but seemed to become rare for under 2Gbps). The > reason for the disconnection was a lack of echo-request/reply packets being > exchanged between the controller and ovs. > Each time the experiment was run, ovs had about 10k flows in its flow table > (added pro-actively) and the controller was not being invoked for packet-in > events (all the relevant flows had already been written). I was unable to > find any relevant posts on the mailing lists regarding similar issue > (controller disconnecting when ovs is under gigabits per second of traffic). > I have no idea what could be causing this behavior, and hope that someone can > enlighten me. > > Regards, > junaid > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
