[ovs-discuss] Upgraded to openvswitch-1.4.1 and still high load and polluted syslog

[Luiz Ozaki]

On 5/24/12 7:21 AM, Volkan YAZICI wrote:
> Hi Oliver!
>
> I have a triangle shaped network topology of 3 ovs 1.4.1
> switches. When I plug-in a host into the network I immediatly
> start to observe the same log pollution and excessive CPU usage
> similar to yours. I either need to un-plug the machine or break
> the triangle into a straight line by removing one of the
> connections between the switches. Have you made any progress on
> your side about the problem? Any clues?
>
Try enabling the STP (spanning tree) the traffic might be getting looped 
causing high load.

http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/ovsman.cgi?page=utilities%2Fovs-vsctl.8

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Luiz Henrique Ozaki