Hi all,
Have you encountered this before? It killed my Dovecot POP/IMAP server.
Sep 6 12:43:01 tegan kernel: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 47s!
[swapper:0]
Sep 6 12:43:01 tegan kernel:
Sep 6 12:43:01 tegan kernel: Pid: 0, comm: swapper
Sep 6 12:43:01 tegan kernel: EIP: 0061:[<c04013a7>] CPU: 0
Sep 6 12:43:01 tegan kernel: EIP is at 0xc04013a7
Sep 6 12:43:01 tegan kernel: EFLAGS: 00000246 Not tainted
(2.6.18-194.11.3.el5xen #1)
Sep 6 12:43:01 tegan kernel: EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00000000 EDX:
00000000
Sep 6 12:43:01 tegan kernel: ESI: 00000001 EDI: 00000000 EBP: 00000020 DS:
007b ES: 007b
Sep 6 12:43:01 tegan kernel: CR0: 8005003b CR2: b7f29000 CR3: 2cbde000 CR4:
00002660
Sep 6 12:43:01 tegan kernel: [<c0408616>] raw_safe_halt+0x8c/0xaf
Sep 6 12:43:01 tegan kernel: [<c040321a>] xen_idle+0x22/0x2e
Sep 6 12:43:01 tegan kernel: [<c0403339>] cpu_idle+0x91/0xab
Sep 6 12:43:01 tegan kernel: [<c0708a01>] start_kernel+0x37c/0x384
...
...
Sep 6 14:34:27 tegan ntpd[1229]: time reset -46.870263 s
independent_wallclock is set to 1 both in /proc and in sysctl.conf - but I
have recently installed a new CentOS kernel version but not yet booted into
it, and I seem to remember having clocking problems before.
Cheers
Jamie Stallwood