It seems you're using 1.11. Could you try with 2.1.x? fbl 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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