On some of the new DELL servers acpi_pad deadlock tries to kill power_saving threads on RHEL 6.2
Issue
- When server is rebooted , all the cpu's seems to be occupied by the process "power_saving" and "watchdog".
Environment
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
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ACPI
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DELL servers.
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