Not sure if this was the last email on this. If not ignore me. However I found a post for new operating systems that says to set the watchdog_thresh value instead of softlockup_thresh. http://askubuntu.com/questions/592412/why-is-there-no-proc-sys-kernel-softlockup-thresh this is an Ubuntu post, but on my CentOS 7 system this parameter exists, and softlockup_thresh does not. I have set it but I will need to see if I still get the CPU lock up messages on my VM. I hope this helps.KM From: correomm <correomm@xxxxxxxxx> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 1:50 PM Subject: Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 36s! [swapper/0:0] Yes, I tried it, but does not exists: vmguest # cat /proc/sys/kernel/softlockup_thresh cat: /proc/sys/kernel/softlockup_thresh: No such file or directory On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Carlos A. Carnero Delgado < carloscarnero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2016-08-18 12:39 GMT-04:00 correomm <correomm@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > This bug is reported only on the VM's with CentOS 7 running on on VMware > > ESXi 5.1. > > The vSphere performance graph shows high CPU consume and disk activity > only > > on VM's with CentOS 7. Sometimes I can not connect remotely with ssh > > (timeout error). > > > > I'm also seeing those errors in several servers, running under 5.5. > Currently investigating if this > <https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search. > do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1009996> > has anything to do (the resource overcommit bit). > > HTH, > Carlos. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos