"BUG: soft lockup - CPU#23 stuck for 10s!" on heavily loaded Oracle server with 512GB RAM

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Issue

  • System is experiencing hangs and soft lockups like BUG: soft lockup - CPU#23 stuck for 10s!

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • kernel-2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 and earlier

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