Just upgraded a server to 2.6.23.8
2x Quad core Machine with Intel board, 4 GB ram etc
seeing this on boot Full dmesg and .config attached
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PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:04:00.0 to 64
e1000: 0000:04:00.0: e1000_probe: (PCI Express:2.5Gb/s:Width x4)
00:15:17:1a:e9:f4
BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#7!
[<c014fa3a>] softlockup_tick+0xea/0x110
[<c0133df3>] update_process_times+0x33/0x80
[<c0146b09>] tick_sched_timer+0x69/0xf0
[<c0141b09>] hrtimer_interrupt+0x149/0x1d0
[<c0146aa0>] tick_sched_timer+0x0/0xf0
[<c0114a1f>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x4f/0x80
[<c0108308>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x28/0x30
[<f886c72f>] acpi_processor_idle+0x27b/0x3f0 [processor]
[<c0105975>] cpu_idle+0x65/0x90
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BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!
[<c014fa3a>] softlockup_tick+0xea/0x110
[<c0133df3>] update_process_times+0x33/0x80
[<c0146b09>] tick_sched_timer+0x69/0xf0
[<c0141b09>] hrtimer_interrupt+0x149/0x1d0
[<c0146aa0>] tick_sched_timer+0x0/0xf0
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