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

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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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