What are all these "Bug: soft lockup" messages about?
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Environment
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
Situation
Resolution
This 'soft lockup' can happen if the kernel is busy, working on a huge amount of objects which need to be scanned, freed, or allocated, respectively.
The stack traces of those tasks can give a first idea about what the tasks were doing. However, to be able to examine the cause behind the messages, a kernel dump would be needed.
While these messages cannot be disabled entirely, in some situations, increasing the time before these
hostname:~ # echo 20 > /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog_thresh
hostname:~ # echo "kernel.watchdog_thresh=20" > /etc/sysctl.d/99-watchdog_thresh.conf
hostname:~ # sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/99-watchdog_thresh.conf
Cause
The watchdog daemon will send an non-maskable interrupt (NMI) to all CPUs in the system who, in turn, print the stack traces of their currently running tasks.
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- Document ID:7017652
- Creation Date: 31-May-2016
- Modified Date:30-Apr-2021
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