This is occasionally useful for debugging. Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> --- Not yet tested, but I'll be sure to test this before committing it.
utilities/ovs-ctl.8 | 15 +++++++++++++++ utilities/ovs-lib.in | 14 +++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/utilities/ovs-ctl.8 b/utilities/ovs-ctl.8 index 988b500..591ff2f 100644 --- a/utilities/ovs-ctl.8 +++ b/utilities/ovs-ctl.8 @@ -182,6 +182,21 @@ suppresses that behavior. Sets the \fBnice\fR(1) level used for \fBovsdb\-server\fR and \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR, respectively. Both default to \fB\-10\fR. . +\fIniceness\fR may also take one of the following special values. +These special values great slow daemon operations so they should not +be used in production. They also produce voluminous logs that can +quickly fill small disk partitions. +. +.RS +.IP "\fBvalgrind\fR" +Run the daemon under \fBvalgrind\fR(1), if it is installed, logging to +\fIdaemon\fB.valgrind.log.\fIpid\fR in the log directory. +. +.IP "\fBstrace\fR" +Run the daemon under \fBstrace\fR(1), if it is installed, logging to +\fIdaemon\fB.strace.log.\fIpid\fR in the log directory. +.RE +. .PP The following options control file locations. They should only be used if the default locations cannot be used. See \fBFILES\fR, below, diff --git a/utilities/ovs-lib.in b/utilities/ovs-lib.in index 7a15aae..16f2b39 100644 --- a/utilities/ovs-lib.in +++ b/utilities/ovs-lib.in @@ -106,7 +106,19 @@ start_daemon () { set "$@" --detach --monitor # priority - if test X"$priority" != X; then + if test X"$priority" = Xvalgrind; then + if (valgrind --version) > /dev/null 2>&1; then + set valgrind -q --leak-check=full --log-file="$logdir/$daemon.valgrind.log.%p" "$@" + else + log_failure_msg "valgrind not installed, running $daemon without it" + fi + elif test X"$priority" = Xstrace; then + if (strace -V) > /dev/null 2>&1; then + set strace -ff -o "$logdir/$daemon.strace.log" "$@" + else + log_failure_msg "strace not installed, running $daemon without it" + fi + elif test X"$priority" != X; then set nice -n "$priority" "$@" fi -- 1.7.2.5 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev