[ovs-discuss] ovs-vsctl: multiple rows in Interface match "vnet0"

[Ben Pfaff]

On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 03:27:43PM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote:
> On Jul 2, 2011, at 2:24 PM, Piotr Kandziora wrote:
> 
> > This situation happens usually after I restart my testing
> > server. What is reason of this? How can I fix it? Maybe this is
> > connected to brcompatd mode. If it were possible to use OVS with
> > LibVirt (maybe am I wrong here that this is not possible?) I would
> > not use this mode.
> 
> My guess is that when you reboot, a new interface record is getting
> created but nothing is cleaning up the old records.  I doubt the old
> record is being referenced, which is why nothing complained about the
> duplicate name and ovs-vswitchd did not fille the record with useful
> information (e.g., ofport, statistics, and status).  This isn't really
> a problem other than filling your database with discarded records.

If that's the problem, we fixed that in the Git master branch, by
improving ovs-brcompatd and implementing garbage collection in the
database.