On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 02:31:58PM +0100, Zac Tolley wrote: > I'm running a fc5 box, with a bunch of disks and opennms, which puts > a high workload on the disks. Not running raid. > > In /var/logl/messages i get and error like this repeatedl. The box is > a dual xeon and it seems like each cpu in turn shows this error. > > what does it mean? It means one of the CPUs got 'stuck' somewhere, in a deadlock. It's possible this has already been fixed. Try and reproduce on the update kernel? Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk