RHEL 5 on Asus P5N-D (NVIDIA nForce) motherboard may require noapic kernel parameter

Issue

• When transferring large amounts of data over the network, servers using a particular hardware configuration (Asus P5N-E SLI or P5ND SLI motherboards and Seagate ST3500320NS hard drives) become unresponsive.

• PID: 617    TASK: ffff81022e5f87e0  CPU: 1   COMMAND: "kjournald"
  #0 [ffff81022d855c20] schedule at ffffffff80062f66
  #1 [ffff81022d855cf8] io_schedule at ffffffff800637ba
  #2 [ffff81022d855d18] sync_buffer at ffffffff800153e7
  #3 [ffff81022d855d28] __wait_on_bit at ffffffff800639e6
  #4 [ffff81022d855d68] out_of_line_wait_on_bit at ffffffff80063a80
  #5 [ffff81022d855dd8] journal_commit_transaction at ffffffff880339a5
  #6 [ffff81022d855e78] kjournald at ffffffff8803758c
  #7 [ffff81022d855ee8] kthread at ffffffff8003298b
  #8 [ffff81022d855f48] kernel_thread at ffffffff8005dfb1