Re: NMI watchdog detected lockup

[Marc Bevand]

On 2004-10-17, Randy.Dunlap <rddunlap@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
| 
|  I'm seeing this often during a kernel build on AIC79xx.
|  I did one kernel build on SATA without seeing this.
|  This is on a dual-Opteron IBM Workstation A with
|  2 GB RAM, SATA, & SCSI.
|  [...]
|  NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU0, registers:
|  [...]

You are not the first one to observe frequent watchdog timeout
lockup on dual Opteron systems during intense I/O operations,
see this thread:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/1933

Note: this does *not* seem to be SATA-related.

-- 
Marc Bevand                          http://www.epita.fr/~bevand_m
Computer Science School EPITA - System, Network and Security Dept.

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