Re: [2.6.15] frequent "BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0" in IDEsubsystem

[Robert Hancock]

Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> kernel: 2.6.15
> system: 3.2GHz P4 hyperthreading, 1xIDE, 2GB ram
> it seems to happen (altough I'm really not sure!) when the system is
> under heavily load: > 8.0, while running sa-learn (the spamassassin
> bayes training tool)

Lots of PIO transfers.. Is DMA not getting enabled on your drives?

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