Comment 40 for bug 245779

I am seeing this same issue across multiple Dell platforms running CentOS 5.2. I have a bug report there: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3318

I'm seeing this item with both the 2.6.17 and 2.6.18 kernels- the base kernels seem to be the most stable. Occasionally, I don't get the soft lockup message- on my faster multicore machines, a core will go to 100%+, but the machine will not completely fail.

I sure wish that the kernel team hadn't run away from this bug.