ovs-vswitchd normally has only one process. If you use --monitor, then it creates a second process to restart the main one if it crashes. If you see more than that, either they are actually threads within ovs-vswitchd (it can have several) or you somehow started multiple copies of ovs-vswitchd.
On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 07:28:58PM -0300, Filipe Lemos wrote: > Sorry, > for some reason it wasn't accepting to send the email. I guess it remove > the screenshot and after trying to send to both groups it choose to sed > booths. > Well, the processes are ovsdb-server and ovs-vswitchd (which seems to have > a tree of processes under it ). > > Em sex., 16 de out. de 2020 às 19:23, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> escreveu: > > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 06:23:24PM -0300, Filipe Lemos wrote: > > > I tried to learn more about each process created by running OvS while my > > > bridge runs as a SDN switch connected to a controller. I can see that > > there > > > are 4 processes with ovs in the name, as shown in the attached > > screenshot. > > > What does each one of them do? There is any documentation explaining > > them? > > > > Please don't crosspost to both lists. > > > > I don't see an attached screenshot. What are the names of the > > processes? > > > > > -- > > *Filipe Augusto da Luz Lemos* M.Sc. > > *PhD Graduate Student | Networks and Distributed Systems | Federal > University of Technology Paraná* > > *Forensic Sciences* |* Syracuse University* > > > *Electrical Engineering | Federal University of Technology Paraná* > > fadal...@syr.edu *|* http://forensics.syr.edu/ > > *fle...@alunos.utfpr.edu.br > <fle...@alunos.utfpr.edu.br> | http://utfpr.edu.br <http://utfpr.edu.br/> * _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list disc...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss