Kernel panic with message: Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interrupts

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The server got panic with above message, e.g.:

    warning: many lost ticks.
Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts
rip __do_softirq+0x4d/0xd0
Falling back to HPET
NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP, CPU=0, registers:
CPU 0

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6 (and earlier)

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