[ovs-discuss] Performance of Openvswitch

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 05:30:30PM +0530, Bhattiprolu RaviKumar wrote:
> What is the typical number of flows (Openflow) that can be added using
> "ovs-ovctl add-flow" on a xeon based server? When I run this command in a
> script on Xeon based server with 8GB memory, I am geeting about 250
> flows/second. Is it the expected rate?

That seems slow.  What method are you using to add flows?