[CentOS] BUG: soft lockup CPU stuck for 10seconds (Server went down)

[James A. Peltier]

----- Original Message -----
| Hello,
| 
| Today my server stopped responding.
| i went to the console and on the screen there were a continuous loop
| of the following info shown on the screen:
| 
| BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 10s! [java:13959]
| 
| and alot of other information.
| ii've took a screen shot of the info shown , you can find it under the
| following url: http://img585.imageshack.us/i/img00012201103070833.jpg/
| and had to hard reset for it to be back up and running.
| 
| i tried googling with no luck for direct relevant info.
| so hoping you can help out
| 
| Thanks,
| 
| --Roland
| 
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This is likely due to thread deadlock.  What is the load on the machine at the time that this error occurs?  I've seen this very error when running The Mathworks Distributed Computing Toolbox server.  The machine would become very "unsettled" when it tried to run on more than four 2 CPUs.  How many CPUs are in this system?

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