On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 09:09:26PM +0530, Neelakantam Gaddam wrote:
> I am new to openvswitch stuff. I ported the openvswitch code to MIPS64
> based embedded platform. Everything looks fine (creating bridges, ports ..,
> etc).
> 
> When I create the ports beyond 1000 using shell script in a bridge, I
> observed out of memory error and the ovs-vswitchd process got killed
> immediately. I observed that ovs-vswitchd is taking more memory as the
> number of ports increase.
> 
> I am using the openvswitch-1.10.0 version. I observed the same issue
> for openvswitch-1.10.2 also.
> 
> One interesting thing is that I did not see this issue when I run
> openvswitch on x86 platform.
> 
> Please help me in understanding and fixing the issue or give me some
> pointers where I can look for memory leaks in ovs-vswitchd code. If this
> issue is already fixed, please provide me the fix.

I doubt there's a leak, especially since ovs-vswitchd is getting killed
quickly.  Probably it just requires more memory than you have.
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