Ok, neither setting the scaling governor to performance, nor appending nohz=off to kernel arguments seems to help. Attaching /var/log/messages, maybe it'll give a hint about the cause of these lockups to someone.
** Attachment added: "/var/log/messages" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13129001/messages -- cpufreq ondemand governor causes kernel panics with 2.6.24-12-generic x86_64 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211977 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs