Hi, Suddenly out of the blue (NO powertop was running or so) my system threw a message in the logging about a soft lockup:
[330718.331426] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1! [330718.331483] [<c1004d53>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30 [330718.331574] [<c1004d7b>] show_trace+0x12/0x14 [330718.331661] [<c1004e75>] dump_stack+0x16/0x18 [330718.331747] [<c104dd77>] softlockup_tick+0xa6/0xc2 [330718.331834] [<c1026855>] run_local_timers+0x12/0x14 [330718.331923] [<c1026669>] update_process_times+0x72/0xa1 [330718.332009] [<c103867b>] tick_sched_timer+0x53/0xb6 [330718.332094] [<c1033d6a>] hrtimer_interrupt+0x189/0x1e3 [330718.332180] [<c100e9e2>] local_apic_timer_interrupt+0x55/0x5b [330718.332268] [<c100ea12>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x2a/0x39 [330718.332354] [<c1004a3f>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x33/0x38 [330718.332441] [<c10020f2>] cpu_idle+0x6b/0x85 [330718.332526] [<c130e218>] start_secondary+0xe8/0x30a [330718.333480] [<00000000>] 0x0 [330718.333579] ======================= I'm a little puzzled why cpu_idle is called anyway as the load of the system is on average at least 2.5 (see http://keetweej.vanheusden.com/load.png ). Folkert van Heusden -- Multitail - gibkaja utilita po sledovaniju log-fajlov i vyvoda kommand. Fil'trovanie, raskrašivanie, slijanie, vizual'noe sravnenie, i t.d. http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: +31-6-41278122, PGP-key: 1F28D8AE, www.vanheusden.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/