Server hangs with multiple soft lockups on a CPU followed by Out of Memory (OOM) events
Issue
- Server hangs or becomes unresponsive and has to be rebooted.
- kernel: NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#X stuck for 22s! [xxxx:xxx]
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Veritas cluster
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