Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Oct 9 2007 09:26, Vasily Averin wrote:
>> On one of our servers timer interrupts (i.e irq0) are stops working. As result
>> any kernel timers do not triggers and tasks waiting some signals from timers
>> hangs forever.
> 
> What kernel.. and tried CONFIG_NO_HZ=n?

Originally I've noticed this issue on RHEL5 kernels, but then I've reproduced it
on latest mainstream kernels, in my last attempt it was 2.6.23-rc7.

Thank you for for your tips about  CONFIG_NO_HZ=n, will try to to it.

thank you,
	Vasily Averin

OpenVZ Linux Kernel Team