On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 12:44 +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > Package: linux-image-3.0.0-1-686-pae > Version: 3.0.0-1 Please use reportbug in future. > My sid KVM guest crashed yesterday. Not actually a crash, but a hang is just as bad (maybe worse). > The emulated screen was blank and > did not respond to any input. The kernel log is full of messages as > shown below. They almost all name the same executable, apache_accesses > (from package munin-node) and have the same backtraces, but are > different PIDs (it is not a long-running process). > > The exception is a "BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 35s!" message, > also below. > > The guest is a news server, with around a kilobyte/second of network > traffic going into it at all times. > > The guest has 512MB RAM assigned. It has a gigabyte of swap available > and doesn't seem to have been using much of it. [...] That does sound wrong. Could it be that the host is slow to service the guest's disk I/O? Ben.
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