The RHEL6 server is hang due to missing CFS period timer

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Issue

  • the machine became unresponsive and had to be rebooted
  • the hung tasks are detected
  • lots of tasks are found in the running state for a long time without making any further progress

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
  • seen on VMware guests

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