Ok, y'all: We managed to get a call trace. I've opened the following bug on this issue: http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2110
Anything else I can do or provide to get traction on getting a developer to look at this? (This is a complete show-stopper for our Scientific Linux 6.1 OpenVZ roll-out.) Stephen On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Stephen Balukoff <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh! And for what it's worth, we're seeing this on both the latest > stable RHEL6 kernel, as well as the latest testing RHEL6 kernel > available in the repositories for download. (That is, 042stab39.11 > and 042stab044.1 respectively). > > Stephen > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Stephen Balukoff <[email protected]> > wrote: >> We're also seeing a big increase in instability since moving to the >> RHEL 6 kernels. Specifically, our typical platform consists of a >> Supermicro motherboard with dual 12-core AMD procs (ie. 24 in one >> system); The most frustrating part is that the symptom we're seeing >> is highly intermittent (sometimes it takes 10 minutes to trigger, >> sometimes several days), and doesn't result in a kernel panic or dump >> per se. Instead what we're seeing is an unresponsive system (still >> responding to ping, but all services on the box are unresponsive), >> with this scrolling by on the console: >> >> BUG: soft lockup - CPU#22 stuck for 67s! [node:585441] >> BUG: soft lockup - CPU#23 stuck for 68s! [node:585419] >> >> (multiple times per second, repeating all the different process >> numbers and many different processes running within containers). >> >> We're going to file a bug report on this, of course, but wondered if >> there was anything else we can do here to get any other information >> which can help the devs to come up with the cause and hopefully fix >> for the above? (Again, we're not getting a panic, and we're not able >> to do anything on the console.) >> >> Thanks, >> Stephen >> >> >> -- >> Stephen Balukoff >> Blue Box Group, LLC >> (800)613-4305 x807 > > > > -- > Stephen Balukoff > Blue Box Group, LLC > (800)613-4305 x807 -- Stephen Balukoff Blue Box Group, LLC (800)613-4305 x807 _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
