Bug#496917: definitely present in Lenny

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:12:58PM +0200, Philipp Hübner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this bug is definitely present in up2date Lenny.
> 
> I have several machines running kvm, and they all have this problem.
> Guests at high load get stuck and cause 100% cpu load on as many
> cores/cpus in the host as have been assigned to the guest virtually.
> 
> Using a newer kernel like 2.6.29 in the guest didn't change anything.
> 
> I didn't try 2.6.29 on the host because for some reason kvm could not
> assign more than 3,5 Gb RAM to a guest then, while this works with 2.6.26=
> =2E

Could you try 2.6.31 from experimental (and soon unstable); there have been
many KVM changes for the past two kernel releases. If the problem persists,
it should be reported upstream.

Cheers,
        Moritz