Thanks! I think that 2-3 days should be fine.
On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 06:18:38PM +0000, Fernando Casas Schössow wrote: > I'm running OVS through valgrind since last night and so far so good in terms > of performance. Probably because this host is not running network intensive > guests. > > I'm running this command from a screen session so I can detach from it > without killing valgrind: > > valgrind --leak-check=full --show-leak-kinds=all -v > --log-file=ovs-valgrind.log /usr/sbin/ovs-vswitchd > --pidfile=/var/run/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.pid --mlockall > unix:/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock > > Originally Alpine is starting ovs-ovswitchd with --detach and --monitor > options but since I'm not running it as a daemon and I don't need the monitor > process I thought removing those options was a good idea. > I'm new to all this but valgrind process RSS size is the same as when I > started it (around 140MB). Not sure if this is because ps will show me only > valgrind's RSS size and not ovs-vswitchd's or if this is because I started > valgrind the wrong way. > > For how long would you suggest I should keep valgrind running? 2-3 days? > > Thanks for looking into this Ben. > > On lun, mar 4, 2019 at 6:22 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > Running OVS through valgrind is probably going to be unacceptably slow. If it > works for you, though, then it will probably tell us the location of the > leak. It is possibly a better option to use Address Sanitizer. It is just as > good as valgrind for locating memory leaks, but it is much, much faster, > possibly fast enough to use in production. On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 10:53:17PM > +0000, Fernando Casas Schössow wrote: > After doing some reading I'm wondering if instead of getting a core dump > (which I already collected when the process got to around 700MB) it would be > better to run OVS through Valgrind and share the log file. What do you think? > Any specific OVS or valgrind flags I should use? > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
