NMI being triggered due to excessive thread context switching

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • NMI is fired and thus server gets halted while trying to schedule too many threads from a process to execute.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Very high thread count for a given process

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