[ovs-discuss] How to crash ovs-vswitchd and ovsdb-server

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 09:01:14AM +0530, V Phanendra wrote:
> My requirement is my application should detect the crash in ovsdb-server
> and ovs-vswitchd application and do required relaunching applications.
> 
> To test this I would like to know how to crash ovsdb-server and
> ovs-vswitchd application?
> I don't want to kill it by kill or other commands.

We test for this with "kill -SEGV".