[CentOS] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 36s! [swapper/0:0]

Thu Aug 18 17:06:16 UTC 2016

2016-08-18 12:39 GMT-04:00 correomm <correomm at gmail.com>:

> This bug is reported only on the VM's with CentOS 7 running on on VMware
> ESXi 5.1.
> The vSphere performance graph shows high CPU consume and disk activity only
> on VM's with CentOS 7. Sometimes I can not connect remotely with ssh
> (timeout error).
>

I'm also seeing those errors in several servers, running under 5.5.
Currently investigating if this
<https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1009996>
has anything to do (the resource overcommit bit).

HTH,
Carlos.