Problem was caused by a failing hot swap back plane, with nothing useful for diagnostics from the kernel. Once the backplane was swapped out the server worked perfectly fine.
For future reference how could something like this be diagnosed from a software perspective? On 10/10/2011 09:17 PM, Launchpad Bug Tracker wrote: > [Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 > days.] > > ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) > Status: Incomplete => Expired > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/815540 Title: Server becomes unresponsive after spawning 16 ksoftirqd processes To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/815540/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
