From: Mark v Wolher <trilight@ns666.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: hangcheck: hangcheck value past margin!
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:49:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43BA48B2.6080402@ns666.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1136280694.2942.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
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 %
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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 [this message]
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