On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Pradeep Kumar <pradeepkernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hi all, > > I got the fallowing soft lockup error > "BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 16s! [Playback Thread:9266"] > is that 16s is the value of /proc/sys/kernel/softlockup_thresh ?? Not really . In loose terms, 16s is the value of difference in time when this process was last touched by this cpu. > if yes, can I get rid of that message/panic by setting softlockup_thresh to > some value greater that 30 ??? You can set it to 0 or something less than 0 to avoid these triggers. See the function softlockup_tick() to see how the calculations are made to trigger soft lockups. Roughly the calculation is :- if "current_time - threshold" > "last time touched timestamp" trigger soft lockup. HTH ___________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > -- Thanks - Manish ================================== [$\*.^ -- I miss being one of them ================================== _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies