Hi,

On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 07:07:53AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >
> > I used 2.6.2x kernel for a long time on my shared hosting and I didn't
> > have any problems. Kernels worked well and server uptime was about 2-3
> > years.
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > it doesn't happen on an empty server, only on loaded ones. Unfortunately
> > I don't know how to provoke such hanging artificially.
> > 
 
> Your traces dont contain symbols, its quite hard to guess the issue.

Well the server got high loaded and began to crash almost once a day.

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BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 23s! [httpd:21686]
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8110bba5>] ? mntput_no_expire+0x25/0x170
[<ffffffff810f9389>] ? path_lookupat+0x189/0x890
[<ffffffff810f9b67>] ? filename_lookup.clone.39+0xd7/0xe0
[<ffffffff810fc85c>] ? user_path_at_empty+0x5c/0xb0
[<ffffffff8102b5f9>] ? __do_page_fault+0x1b9/0x480
[<ffffffff810f146e>] ? vfs_fstatat+0x3e/0x90
[<ffffffff810c54bf>] ? remove_vma+0x5f/0x70
[<ffffffff810f168f>] ? sys_newstat+0x1f/0x50
[<ffffffff814b09c2>] ? page_fault+0x22/0x30
[<ffffffff814b0f49>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x18/0x1d
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There's a full trace in attachment. 

-- 
BRGDS. Alexey Vlasov.