[ovs-discuss] OVN Database sizes - Auto compact feature

[Daniel Alvarez Sanchez]

Hi Ben,
After [0] got merged the compaction code is not there anymore. How is this
being done
now? Also, can we get the backport of [1][2] to 2.9 branch?

[0]
https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/1b1d2e6daa563cc91f974ffdc082fb3a8b424801
[1]
https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/1cfdc175ab1ecbc8f5d22f78d8e5f4344d55c5dc#diff-62fba9ea73e44f70aa9f56228bd4658c
[2]
https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/69f453713459c60e5619174186f94a0975891580

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 11:21 PM, Daniel Alvarez Sanchez <dalvarez at redhat.com
> wrote:

> Ok, I've just sent a patch and if you're not convinced we can
> just do the 2x change. Thanks a lot!
> Daniel
>
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 10:19 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
>
>> I guess I wouldn't object.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 10:11:11PM +0100, Daniel Alvarez Sanchez wrote:
>> > Thanks Ben and Mark. I'd be okay with 2x.
>> > Don't you think that apart from that it can still be good to compact
>> after
>> > a
>> > certain amount of time (like 1 day) if the number of transactions is > 0
>> > regardless of the size?
>> >
>> > On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 10:00 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > > It would be trivial to change 4x to 2x.  4x was just the suggestion in
>> > > the Raft thesis.  If 2x would make everyone a little more comfortable,
>> > > let's make that change.
>> > >
>>
>
>
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