[CentOS] abrt-watch-log -F BUG: WARNING: at WARNING: CPU: INFO: possible recursive locking detected

Mon Aug 24 12:41:01 UTC 2015
Michael H <michael at wemoto.com>

Hi All,

I've been tuning a server recently and just today this has started to 
appear in my top/htop output.

[root at db1 ~]# ps -aux | grep kernel
root 1011 0.0 0.0 212048 4532 ? Ss 13:34 0:00 /usr/bin/abrt-watch-log -F 
BUG: WARNING: at WARNING: CPU: INFO: possible recursive locking detected 
ernel BUG at list_del corruption list_add corruption do_IRQ: stack 
overflow: ear stack overflow (cur: eneral protection fault nable to 
handle kernel ouble fault: RTNL: assertion failed eek! 
page_mapcount(page) went negative! adness at NETDEV WATCHDOG ysctl table 
check failed : nobody cared IRQ handler type mismatch Machine Check 
Exception: Machine check events logged divide error: bounds: coprocessor 
segment overrun: invalid TSS: segment not present: invalid opcode: 
alignment check: stack segment: fpu exception: simd exception: iret 
exception: /var/log/messages -- /usr/bin/abrt-dump-oops -xtD

I had made a few changes to sysctl.conf which I have now reverted and 
the error still exists.

my sysctl.conf contained;

vm.swappiness=0
vm.overcommit_memory=2
vm.overcommit_ratio=90 - this was only added this morning because of an 
'out of memory' error in postgresql.
kernel.shmmax=35433480192
kernel.shmall=2214592512

which I have now removed.

Can anyone shine any light on this? A little search on Google mentions 
faulty memory, I will install memtest today and see what the output is like.


Thanks

Michael