Gé Weijers wrote: > Thanks for answering. > > a) The workstation has: > - CPU E5-2687W > - 32 GB RAM (ECC) > - AMD FirePro V7900, original graphics card. (This happens with both the > AMD driver installed and not installed.) > - MegaRAID SAS 2008 controller configured for RAID1 > > I had a quad PCIe serial card in it as well, but I have removed it. No > change. > > b) It's was not a fresh install, but it's been doing this only recently. > It > started out with CentOS 6.3 or so in november 2012. > > I saw some kernel oopses as well, I'm wondering whether the RAID > controller is going bad. Hard to tell from this. Anything significant in dmesg | tail? I've seen that damn swapper/tainted, but there's some tuning that can be done, that might be hugepage issues. <snip> mark