[ovs-discuss] Out of memory error for ovs-vswitchd

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 10:42:48AM +0530, Neelakantam Gaddam wrote:
> My doubt is that I did not see this issue for OVS running on x86 platform.
> In this case ovs-vswitchd takes hardly 100 MB memory for 2000 ports. But in
> MIPS64 based platform, ovs-vswitchd takes approximately 700 MB for 1000
> ports only. Is this behavior expected ? 

I'm surprised to hear that the difference is that big, but one would
naturally expect software on a 64-bit platform to use more memory than
the same software on a 32-bit platform.

> Is there any fix for this issue ?

We haven't yet established that there is a problem.