Why does my Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 AMD Opteron-based system panic under extreme load?

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Release Found: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, Update 8 and earlier

Limitation: This has been seen in AMD Opteron-based systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update 8 and below.

Symptoms:

This problem has rarely been seen on Dual-Core systems and have not been seen in single-core systems although single-cores may be technic...

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