Example

stats = 1.0
affinity = 0x3
priority = 99
hugepages = 0
uuid = "ff1e2a1c-e0aa-11eb-b097-7c507989889d"

Configuration

The global section consists of some global configuration parameters:

stats (float)

Specifies the rate at which statistics about the active paths will be periodically printed to the screen.

Setting this value to 5, will print 5 lines per second.

A line includes information such as:

Source and Destination of path
Messages received
Messages sent
Messages dropped

affinity (integer)

Restricts the exeuction of the daemon to certain CPU cores. This technique, also called 'pinning', improves the determinism of the server by isolating the daemon processes on exclusive cores.

priority (integer)

Adjusts the scheduling priority of the deamon processes. By default, the daemon uses a real-time optimized FIFO scheduling algorithm.

hugepages (integer)

The number of hugepages which will be reservered by the system.

See: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt

A value of zero will disable the use of huge pages.

uuid (string) = random generated

Each VILLASnode instance is identified by a globally unique indentifier / UUID.

This UUID can be queried by the API.

If the setting is not provided, a UUID will be generated by hashing the active VILLASnode configuration. This ensures that restarting the VILLASnode instance with the identical configuration will yield always the same UUID.