Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750796AbWACJbh (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 04:31:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750831AbWACJbh (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 04:31:37 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:59346 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750796AbWACJbh (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 04:31:37 -0500 Subject: Re: hangcheck: hangcheck value past margin! From: Arjan van de Ven To: Mark v Wolher Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <43BA43E9.2090106@ns666.com> References: <43BA43E9.2090106@ns666.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:31:33 +0100 Message-Id: <1136280694.2942.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.8 (--) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.0.4 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (-2.8 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.8 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 678 Lines: 19 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? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/