100% CPU load with device scanning enabled

Łukasz Jarosz lukasz at jarosz.in
Tue May 7 10:13:58 CEST 2019


Hi,
I've been struggling with similiar issue while trying to setup BIRD on
EdgeRouter platform. Unfortunately, VRF approach worked only until I put
some ip rules.

Best regards,
Łukasz Jarosz

wt., 7 maj 2019, 09:06 użytkownik Kees Meijs <kees at nefos.nl> napisał:

> Hi again,
>
> Placing the routes in another table works fine:
>
> # ip r s ta 10 | wc -l
> 744892
>
>
> Meanwhile in the default table:
>
> # ip r s | wc -l
> 3
>
>
> However it seems the Open vSwitch daemon is again triggered and polls to
> synchronise the routes.
>
> Still eating it's way through a CPU thread:
>
> top - 08:47:02 up 6 min,  1 user,  load average: 1,11, 0,83, 0,40
> Tasks: 123 total,   2 running, 121 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> %Cpu(s): 15,5 us, 11,3 sy,  0,0 ni, 73,2 id,  0,0 wa,  0,0 hi,  0,0 si,
> 0,0 st
> KiB Mem : 32929556 total, 31573996 free,  1259204 used,    96356 buff/cache
> KiB Swap:        0 total,        0 free,        0 used. 31347300 avail Mem
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  *%CPU* %MEM     TIME+
> COMMAND
>   772 root      10 -10 1234200 884504   8440 R *105,0*  2,7   6:08.68
> ovs-vswitchd
>
>
> I believe it's a good thing to fix Open vSwitch (not BIRD) but meanwhile
> I'll try to figure out another approach, maybe using virtualisation to
> separate the physical world from the routing process.
>
> If there's any future testing or debugging to do I'm glad to help and make
> a test lab.
>
> Regards,
> Kees
>
> On 07-05-19 07:22, Kees Meijs wrote:
>
> Hopefully I'll be able to configure VRFs today and'll if that helps.
>
>
>
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