Debugging Open vSwitch logs: long poll interval, blocked waiting

Unfortunately, we often receive reports of users escalating the "long poll interval" and "blocked waiting" log messages as issues with Open vSwitch (OVS). Regrettably, in most cases, the problems are tied to system resource issues. Because OVS raises alerts about them, it ends up being wrongly identified as the culprit. Before delving into the debugging process, let's first clarify the meaning of these messages. Within its internal operations, OVS employs a mechanism known as a poll loop to hand...

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