[ovs-discuss] OvS Processes

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Fri Oct 16 22:32:10 UTC 2020


ovs-vswitchd normally has only one process.  If you use --monitor, then
it creates a second process to restart the main one if it crashes.  If
you see more than that, either they are actually threads within
ovs-vswitchd (it can have several) or you somehow started multiple
copies of ovs-vswitchd.

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 07:28:58PM -0300, Filipe Lemos wrote:
> Sorry,
> for some reason it wasn't accepting to send the email. I guess it remove
> the screenshot and after trying to send to both groups it choose to sed
> booths.
> Well, the processes are ovsdb-server and ovs-vswitchd (which seems to have
> a tree of processes under it ).
> 
> Em sex., 16 de out. de 2020 às 19:23, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> escreveu:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 06:23:24PM -0300, Filipe Lemos wrote:
> > > I tried to learn more about each process created by running OvS while my
> > > bridge runs as a SDN switch connected to a controller. I can see that
> > there
> > > are 4 processes with ovs in the name, as shown in the attached
> > screenshot.
> > > What does each one of them do? There is any documentation explaining
> > them?
> >
> > Please don't crosspost to both lists.
> >
> > I don't see an attached screenshot.  What are the names of the
> > processes?
> >
> 
> 
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