Cannot setup NMI watchdog on CPU X.

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Issue

  • When booting a system, the following message sometimes appear in the dmesg output.

    kernel: Cannot setup NMI watchdog on CPU 0
    
  • Does this message relate with any problems?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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