Yea sure. Let me first look if memory is indeed an issue with the current version for me, if yes then I'd switch to the newer one available at master.
Thanks for the help and suggestion. Regards. - Farrukh Aftab Khan On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > For what it's worth, OVS from master should use less memory than OVS 1.7 > for large numbers of flows, so if that scenario is important then you > should consider using it. > > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:01:39PM +0500, Farrukh Aftab Khan wrote: > > Memory was the issue. There was only 303 MB of RAM left and hence the > crash. > > > > Thank you for the help Ben. > > Much appreciated. > > - > > Farrukh Aftab Khan > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Farrukh Aftab Khan < > > farrukh.k...@xflowresearch.com> wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the quick reply Ben. > > > > > > My RAM is 4GB. The problem is that the whole system crashes and I > > > repeatedly get the same errors on my console. After reboot, I do not > know > > > how much of my memory was used. > > > > > > Perhaps I should try with 0.5 million flows and see how much memory is > > > being consumed. > > > Thanks for the heads up. > > > > > > Regards. > > > - > > > Farrukh Aftab Khan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > > > > >> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:21:33AM +0500, Farrukh Aftab Khan wrote: > > >> > I am using OVS-1.7.1 on embedded Linux (kernel-2.6.32.27). I am > running > > >> > this on OCTEON MIPS processor that has ten cores. After about 0.4 > > >> million > > >> > flows, I get the following error and the switch becomes > non-responsive. > > >> The > > >> > same error comes repeatedly: > > >> > > >> Did you run out of system RAM? > > >> > > > > > > >
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