We can't create more than 248 bridges with the current limit 5000, so increase it to 6000 so that at least 256+ bridges could be created.
Cc: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> --- diff --git a/utilities/ovs-ctl.in b/utilities/ovs-ctl.in index 7febd1c..45cbbc1 100755 --- a/utilities/ovs-ctl.in +++ b/utilities/ovs-ctl.in @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ start_forwarding () { # Increase the limit on the number of open file descriptors. # ovs-vswitchd needs 16 per datapath, plus a few extra, so this # should allow for 256 (or more) bridges. - ulimit -n 5000 + ulimit -n 6000 # Start ovs-vswitchd. set ovs-vswitchd unix:"$DB_SOCK" _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev