[ovs-discuss] How to measure the activity of the switch?

Flavio Leitner fbl at redhat.com
Tue Oct 28 18:51:00 UTC 2014


On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 04:23:42PM -0300, Cleber Araujo wrote:
> I set up a simple topology with two hosts and a switch in Mininet.
> Generating traffic with iperf I can measure the bandwidth, but how do I
> measure the workload of the switch (Open vSwitch)?
> 
> How to know how much CPU the switch worked for generating traffic? Is this
> possible?

It's not clear what you are trying to archive here, but
I suggest to start with 'perf' tool.

A quick and very simple session would be like:
# perf record -a
<run the workload>
# perf report

fbl 




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