I think I may have a clue to the mysterious stoppages of my server.
I ssh'd into it today and got the following. It is time to give up on this
machine and replace it?

-- hendrik


hendrik@april:~$ su -
Password:
april:~# ps | grep lighttpd
^C^C
Message from syslogd@april at Oct 25 20:15:48 ...
kernel:[ 5700.156005] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for
22s! [ps:9184]

Message from syslogd@april at Oct 25 20:16:16 ...
kernel:[ 5728.156005] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for
22s! [ps:9184]

Message from syslogd@april at Oct 25 20:16:52 ...
kernel:[ 5764.156005] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for
23s! [ps:9184]


Message from syslogd@april at Oct 25 20:17:20 ...
kernel:[ 5792.156005] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for
22s! [ps:9184]

Message from syslogd@april at Oct 25 20:17:56 ...
kernel:[ 5828.156005] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for
22s! [ps:9184]

Message from syslogd@april at Oct 25 20:18:24 ...
kernel:[ 5856.156005] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for
22s! [ps:9184]

Message from syslogd@april at Oct 25 20:18:56 ...
kernel:[ 5888.156005] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for
22s! [ps:9184]

Message from syslogd@april at Oct 25 20:19:24 ...
kernel:[ 5916.156005] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for
22s! [ps:9184]

Message from syslogd@april at Oct 25 20:20:00 ...
kernel:[ 5952.156005] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for
22s! [ps:9184]

Message from syslogd@april at Oct 25 20:20:28 ...
kernel:[ 5980.156005] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for
22s! [ps:9184]