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| author | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2012-01-26 16:02:01 -0800 |
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| committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2012-01-26 16:03:47 -0800 |
| commit | f85748f7f1228fc7dcf5a9280e01d4bd9f13df1e (patch) | |
| tree | 2f4473e19fed989ddee5b3361d97ee5a175b3a4f | |
| parent | 3096dfb4112e422eac47a4afb55807f9c04bd553 (diff) | |
ovs-ctl: Restore ability to create 256 bridges.
OVS is supposed to support at least 256 bridges simultaneously, but the
file descriptor count was a little too low for that.
Build tested only.
Bug #8218.
Reported-by: Luca Giraudo <lgiraudo@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
| -rwxr-xr-x | utilities/ovs-ctl.in | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/utilities/ovs-ctl.in b/utilities/ovs-ctl.in index 5640ee88..f10e98ac 100755 --- a/utilities/ovs-ctl.in +++ b/utilities/ovs-ctl.in @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ #! /bin/sh -# Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011 Nicira Networks, Inc. +# Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Nicira Networks, Inc. # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. @@ -199,9 +199,10 @@ start () { if daemon_is_running ovs-vswitchd; then log_success_msg "ovs-vswitchd is already running" else - # Increase the limit on the number of open file descriptors since - # ovs-vswitchd needs a few per bridge - ulimit -n 4096 + # Increase the limit on the number of open file descriptors. + # ovs-vswitchd needs 16 per datapath, plus a few extra, so this + # should allow for 256 (or more) bridges. + ulimit -n 5000 # Start ovs-vswitchd. set ovs-vswitchd unix:"$DB_SOCK" |