Sounds like a job for WireShark (or Charles if you can run imgadm from a Mac 
somehow).

(Disclaimer: I haven't seen this behavior.)

> On 10 Feb 2015, at 22:39, Lloyd Dewolf via smartos-discuss 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 6:41 AM, Nahum Shalman via smartos-discuss 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 02/03/2015 01:35 AM, Greg Zartman via smartos-discuss wrote:
>>> I thought I'd play around with the LX branded zones that the Joyent devs 
>>> have been working hard on.   I was reading this wiki page here:
>>> 
>>> https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/LX+Branded+Zones#LXBrandedZones-64Bit
>>> 
>>> There is a step to import updates.joyent.com as a source of the lx zone 
>>> image.  When I do this and then do a image avail, imgadm just seems to 
>>> hang.  I was hoping to look and see what the latest image happened to be, 
>>> but I can't seem to get a listing.  Is this normal?
>> 
>> Hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong...
>> 
>> My understanding is that updates.joyent.com has a *LOT* of images on it, so 
>> the hang is your machine downloading and parsing a very very large amount of 
>> json.
>> 
>> I'm fairly certain that there aren't any newer images posted, so it should 
>> be safe to stick with the image UUIDs on the wiki page.
>> 
>> -Nahum
> 
> Nahum, I think you are correct about a lot of images on it, but I think there 
> may be something more going on here. I've seen the same symptom, but have not 
> had a chance to dig into it. I noted that the the sdc imgadm commands use 
> different source tree, so I was going to see if the symptom reproduced there 
> as well and take it from there.
> 
> Sometimes
> imgadm avail | head
> returns right away and sometimes it doesn't return before I give up in 
> frustration.
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