Hello, Although not running a vanilla kernel on this machine, I have reported the issue to the distribution's bug tracking system. It has been almost a week with no response, so I am sending this email. Multiple times, when I return to my computer from being away for a little while, I noticed: Message from syslogd@redacted at Mar 23 XX:XX:XX ... kernel:[1059322.470817] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 22s! [kswapd0:31] Dmesg | grep NMI produced: [1151200.727734] sending NMI to all CPUs: [1151200.727812] NMI backtrace for cpu 0 [1151200.764129] INFO: NMI handler (arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace_handler) took too long to run: 36.262 msecs [1151200.764198] NMI backtrace for cpu 1 [1151216.700893] sending NMI to all CPUs: [1151216.700984] NMI backtrace for cpu 1 [1151216.706524] NMI backtrace for cpu 0 [1723994.455161] <NMI> [<ffffffff81554a5e>] ? dump_stack+0x41/0x51 I didn't have time to grep for kswapd or to investigate further. Long story short, the machine was shutdown shortly afterwords. Justin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-watchdog" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html