On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 02:01:25PM GMT, Adrián Moreno wrote: > On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 11:21:44AM GMT, richman1000000--- via discuss wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I have an issue with openvswitch on server. > > > > few month ago had issue with server being inaccessible. > > After investigation I found a reason for that. > > folder /var is on the disk (HDD RAID) > > folder /run is in memory(tmpfs) > > symlink //var/run -> /run/ > > > > /lsof | grep "var/run" > > ovsdb-ser 593 root 15u unix > > 0x00000000065cc4dd 0t0 12496 /var/run/openvswitch/db.sock > > type=STREAM > > ovsdb-ser 593 root 16u unix > > 0x00000000d853813b 0t0 12497 > > /var/run/openvswitch/ovsdb-server.593.ctl type=STREAM > > ovsdb-ser 593 root 18u unix > > 0x000000004cba3d40 0t0 12544 /var/run/openvswitch/db.sock > > type=STREAM > > ovs-vswit 641 root 9u unix > > 0x000000007acb4cf4 0t0 16459 > > /var/run/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.641.ctl type=STREAM > > ovs-vswit 641 root 48u unix > > 0x000000003b097565 0t0 25826 > > /var/run/openvswitch/ovs-inter.mgmt type=STREAM > > ovs-vswit 641 root 49u unix > > 0x00000000a1bb850e 0t0 25827 > > /var/run/openvswitch/ovs-inter.snoop type=STREAM/ > > > > During heaving IO to disk folder /var becomes frozen. ls -l will not return > > anything. > > since /var contains "run" symlink this results in ovs daemons to fail and > > virtual switch stops working. > > > > the solution is to move all pid and sockets to folder /run but is seems this > > is hard-coded into ovs daemons. > > rundir is not hardcoded into ovs daemons. You can change it by setting > environment variables when launching the daemons. Also look at ovs-ctl > script "--with-rundir" option. > > Thanks. > Adrián > > > I've tried to change in conf.db /"rundir","/var/run/openvswitch" /but ovs > > will not start after that changes. > >
FYIW Looking at this option, I found the documentation slightly confusing. I think it can get misread into "you can configure rundir here!" where it really means "you can __read__ rundir from here". Thanks. Adrián > > _______________________________________________ > > discuss mailing list > > disc...@openvswitch.org > > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list disc...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
