On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Tmusic <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running ovs on Ubuntu 11.04 and noticed that it can process max. 200Mbps > (NIC's are gigabit). That is quite low. I have seen 9 Gbps on non-tunnel mode (on 10G NICs). You are sending traffic through VM or through the host? If the former, use a high performance driver. You can always remove openvswitch and see the throughput with the exact same setup with just the linux bridge and compare.
> > It's used as an openflow switch with POX as controller and about 10 flows > are installed. ovs is running with kernel module. The CPU is a quadcore > Intel Xeon running at 2.2Ghz and one of the cores is fully used by vswitchd. > So the CPU is limiting in this case. I'm pretty sure there are are no loops > in the network. > > Is this normal level of performance that can be expected from ovs or could > something wrong with the configuration? > > Kind regards and thank you in advance, > > Tim > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
