* hangcheck: hangcheck value past margin! @ 2006-01-03 9:29 Mark v Wolher 2006-01-03 9:31 ` Arjan van de Ven 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Mark v Wolher @ 2006-01-03 9:29 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-kernel Hiya guys, I'm getting the msg "hangcheck: hangcheck value past margin!" every few minutes in the logs. It started all of a sudden. The kernel is a vanilla 2.6.14.5 on a remote box. What could this mean ? Thanks ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: hangcheck: hangcheck value past margin! 2006-01-03 9:29 hangcheck: hangcheck value past margin! Mark v Wolher @ 2006-01-03 9:31 ` Arjan van de Ven 2006-01-03 9:49 ` Mark v Wolher 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Arjan van de Ven @ 2006-01-03 9:31 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Mark v Wolher; +Cc: linux-kernel On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 10:29 +0100, Mark v Wolher wrote: > Hiya guys, > > > I'm getting the msg "hangcheck: hangcheck value past margin!" every few > minutes in the logs. It started all of a sudden. The kernel is a vanilla > 2.6.14.5 on a remote box. > > What could this mean ? it means you enabled the hangcheck timer watchdog, and it seems to think the kernel is too busy or losing time ;) Did you mean to enable that watchdog? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: hangcheck: hangcheck value past margin! 2006-01-03 9:31 ` Arjan van de Ven @ 2006-01-03 9:49 ` Mark v Wolher 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Mark v Wolher @ 2006-01-03 9:49 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Arjan van de Ven; +Cc: Linux Kernel Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 10:29 +0100, Mark v Wolher wrote: > >>Hiya guys, >> >> >>I'm getting the msg "hangcheck: hangcheck value past margin!" every few >>minutes in the logs. It started all of a sudden. The kernel is a vanilla >>2.6.14.5 on a remote box. >> >>What could this mean ? > > > it means you enabled the hangcheck timer watchdog, and it seems to think > the kernel is too busy or losing time ;) > Did you mean to enable that watchdog? > Yes, it's indeed enabled, i just remembered when you mentioned the word "timer" hehe But the system is not processing a heavy load. Here is a capture with top: top - 17:47:47 up 4 days, 18:58, 1 user, load average: 0.35, 0.16, 0.05 Tasks: 88 total, 3 running, 85 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 20.8% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 78.9% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.3% si Mem: 513484k total, 498216k used, 15268k free, 140744k buffers Swap: 1461872k total, 0k used, 1461872k free, 153608k cached the "idle" percentage goes from 65 % to 95 % ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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