Re: hangcheck: hangcheck value past margin!

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Jan 03 2006 - 04:30:22 EST


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?

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