.TH ovs\-parse\-leaks 8 "August 2010" "Open vSwitch" "Open vSwitch Manual"
.
.SH NAME
-Bovs\-parse\-leaks \- parses OVS leak checker log files
+ovs\-parse\-leaks \- parses OVS leak checker log files
.
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBovs\-parse\-leaks\fR [\fIbinary\fR] \fB< \fIlog\fR
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
-Prints a help usage message and exits.
+Prints a usage message and exits.
.SH BUGS
The output can be hard to interpret, especially for a daemon that does
-not exit in normal operation.
+not exit in normal operation. Using \fBovs\-appctl\fR(8) to invoke
+the \fBexit\fR command that some Open vSwitch daemons support
+sometimes helps with this.
.PP
-\fBovs\-parse\-leaks\fR usually incorrectly reports one or more "bad
-frees of not-allocated address" errors at the beginning of output.
+\fBovs\-parse\-leaks\fR usually incorrectly reports one or more ``bad
+frees of not-allocated address'' errors at the beginning of output.
These reflect frees of data that were allocated before the leak
checker was turned on during program initialization.