Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: NBD server for QEMU images

[Avi Kivity]

Salvador Fandino wrote:
> I have run some tests and found that it's easy to cause a deadlock just
> untaring a file over an nbd device being served from localhost (using
> the standard nbd-server or my own, it doesn't matter).
>
> Another interesting finding is that when the deadlock happens, qemu-nbds
> is inside a read() call, waiting for new nbd requests to arrive over the
> socket, and so, not trying to allocate memory or writing to disk.
>
>   

If you use sysrq-t and a serial console, you will find exactly how it's 
waiting for memory.

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