[Oisf-users] Recommended settings for flow manager/recycler for 1Gbps of traffic

[Peter Manev]

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:45 AM, Brian Keefer <chort at effu.se> wrote:
> On May 12, 2015, at 3:33 PM, Peter Manev <petermanev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:37 PM, Brian Keefer <chort at effu.se> wrote:
>>> On May 12, 2015, at 1:44 PM, Peter Manev <petermanev at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello Peter,
>>>
>>> Are the number of management threads increased dynamically, based on how many other threads are configured (i.e. if I configure 2 flow managers, does the number of total management threads increase to 4?), or does the number of (flow manager + flow recycler) threads have to be less than the number of management threads?
>>
>> No they are not dynamically increased. Actually if you are using the
>> latest git and you set up for example -
>>
>> flow:
>>  memcap: 64mb
>>  hash-size: 65536
>>  prealloc: 10000
>>  emergency-recovery: 30
>>  managers: 2 # default to one flow manager
>>  recyclers: 2 # default to one flow recycler thread
>>
>> That will give you 6 management threads in total - 2 flow manager
>> threads, 2 flow recycler threads and you always have 2 additional by
>> default  - SCPerfWakeupThread thread and a SCPerfMgmtThread thread = 6
>> in total
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Peter Manev
>
> OK, that makes sense.
>
> I noticed the recycler thread was consistently near the top of CPU usage, so I added one and it did increase dynamically. I’m using beta4.
>

I am not understanding - what increased dynamically?

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> bk
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Regards,
Peter Manev