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Description of problem: Right now, libvirt shares its client pool among read-only and read-write clients. That means that enough parallel attempts to connect from read-only clients will starve any connection attempts by read-write clients. This is a form of Denial of Service, built into the design, and it seems like it would be relatively easy to adjust things so that libvirt either has two separate client pools, or allows a smaller cap on the number of read-only clients, so that read-write clients can't be starved by too many read-only connections. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libvirt-0.8.7-16.el6 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. if desired, modify /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf to reduce max_clients to make testing faster 2. open the maximum number (default 20) of simultaneous read-only connections (for example, a loop that spawns virsh -r into background processes) 3. try to open a read-write connection Actual results: starvation Expected results: Be able to guarantee a certain number of connections to read-write clients, no matter what read-only clients are doing Additional info:
Closing as a duplicate of 746666 as the fundamental behavior that needs to be fixed is the same. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 746666 ***