It seems you're using 1.11.  Could you try with 2.1.x?
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 01:20:43PM -0700, Tom Samburg wrote:
> We are running in to some interesting conditions with openvswitch in our 
> environment.  We are running OVS on KVM (on RHEL 6.5).  We have an interface 
> (“production traffic”) attached to OVS and our vm that is our router is 
> connected to the vswitch.  Everything with that is working perfectly.  We 
> attached a second VM to the OVS switch and we created a mirrored port (the 
> source is the router and the destination is the second vm).  
> 
> Issues
>       1. We have noticed on the hypervisor in our testing we have seen at 
> higher rates (say 100K+) the ovsdb-server process is consuming about 100% 
> cpu.  When we are in this state we can not run any ovs-vstcl commands and our 
> only fix appears to be to reboot they hypervisor.  We can pass packets in/out 
> of our router vm and still see packets on our mirror.
>       2. The mirror does work, however, in our testing we have seen at higher 
> rates (say 100K+ packets per second over a period of time… could be hours, 
> sometimes days) the mirrored port stops seeing the traffic that the 
> destination port is receiving.  We have (at times) been able to fix this by 
> restarting networking on our vm that has the mirror port.  We are also 
> looking at memory allocations on our vm.
> We have googled around and have not found too much on this and the question 
> we have is can you offer some advice/suggestions?  We are happy to provide as 
> much details as you would like.
> 
> 
> # rpm -qi openvswitch
> Name        : openvswitch                  Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 1.11.0_8ce28d                     Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
> Release     : 1.el6ost                      Build Date: Tue Jul 30 22:15:07 
> 2013
> Install Date: Tue Jul 22 20:36:36 2014         Build Host: 
> x86-023.build.eng.bos.redhat.com
> Group       : Unspecified                   Source RPM: 
> openvswitch-1.11.0_8ce28d-1.el6ost.src.rpm
> Size        : 5661725                          License: ASL 2.0 and LGPLv2+ 
> and SISSL
> Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Tue Sep  3 20:25:49 2013, Key ID a7ad77e44a7dacc7
> Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> URL         : http://openvswitch.org
> Summary     : Open vSwitch daemon/database/utilities
> Description :
> Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and
> support for the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of
> Traffic.
> 
> Thank you very much!
> 
> Tom Samburg

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