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

Mon Mar 7 07:42:51 UTC 2011
Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org>

Am 07.03.2011 08:31, schrieb Roland RoLaNd:
> 
> 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

A good reason why to run CentOS 5.4 (at least its kernel)?

Running remotely vulnerable Oracle Java which can be affected by a DoS
throug a web application?

Alexander