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Symptoms:
- An ESXi/ESX host stops responding and displays a purple diagnostic screen indicating that a Page Fault (
#PF
) or General Protection Fault (#GP
) exception has occurred. - The purple diagnostic screen contains information similar to:
TimerAlloc@vmkernel#nover+0xnn stack: 0xnn
Timer_AddTCWithLockDomain@vmkernel#nover+0xnn stack: 0xnn
Timer_AddTC@vmkernel#nover+0xnn stack: 0xnn
FastSlab_AllocWithTimeout@vmkernel#nover+0xnn stack: 0xnn
- The ESXi/ESX host is using Intel Xeon CPUs that support Intel FlexPriority.