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

[Ben Pfaff]

OK, thanks.

If this is a lot of trouble, let me know and I'll investigate directly
instead of on the basis of a suspected regression.

On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 07:06:50PM +0100, Daniel Alvarez Sanchez wrote:
> All right, I'll repeat it with code in branch-2.8.
> Will post the results once the test finishes.
> Daniel
> 
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 7:03 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 05:53:15PM +0100, Daniel Alvarez Sanchez wrote:
> > > Repeated the test with 1000 ports this time. See attached image.
> > > For some reason, the sizes grow while deleting the ports (the
> > > deletion task starts at around x=2500). The weird thing is why
> > > they keep growing and the online compact doesn't work as when
> > > I do it through ovs-appctl tool.
> > >
> > > I suspect this is a bug and eventually it will grow and grow unless
> > > we manually compact the db.
> >
> > Would you mind trying out an older ovsdb-server, for example the one
> > from OVS 2.8?  Some of the logic in ovsdb-server around compaction
> > changed in OVS 2.9, so it would be nice to know whether this was a
> > regression or an existing bug.
> >