[Systems] [SOLVED] VM lockup with 100% CPU usage

Aleksey Lim alsroot at member.fsf.org
Fri Nov 5 15:59:21 EDT 2010


On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 02:35:16PM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 10:58 -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> > Sascha,
> > 
> > we don't seem to have this problem any more, but a workaround that seems
> > to work is passing "clock=pmtmr" to the kernel.
> > 
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1234964
> 
> 
> Haha, it has *just* happened to jita! It started using 200% cpu for
> extended periods of time. I'm not sure it's the same issue, though,
> because the machine is not hung and it is indeed doing some work (though
> not enough to justify such a high load.
> 
> I added the "clock=pmtmr" setting to the kernel command line. Aleksey,
> can you reboot when you're done?

done

> 
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> From: Munin <munin at sugarlabs.org>
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> Subject: [Systems-logs] housetree.sugarlabs.org: Munin alert
> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:25:28 -0400
> 
> sugarlabs.org :: housetree.sugarlabs.org :: CPU usage
> 	WARNINGs: system is 94.77 (outside range [:90]).
> 
> 
> 
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