How can we stop a KVM from freezing

webservio

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First of all we love Proxmox for many reasons and intend to continue using it. However we have experienced this with almost all versions of Proxmoxe including the latest 2.1. Certain of KVMs running linux Debian Lenny
freeze in randomly and the only way to deal with it is to stop and restart the KVM. We tried increasing CPU units to maximum as well as increasing allocated Ram but still same experience. What exactly can we do to prevent this?

Many thanks,
 
Here is an example of messages poping up:

tail -f /var/log/messages
May 15 07:00:04 localhost kernel: [102124.342433] [<ffffffff81039b9b>] ? do_softirq+0x5f/0xba
May 15 07:00:04 localhost kernel: [102124.342433] [<ffffffff81079a65>] ? irq_exit+0x36/0x77
May 15 07:00:04 localhost kernel: [102124.342433] [<ffffffff8104dc4e>] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x87/0x95
May 15 07:00:04 localhost kernel: [102124.342433] [<ffffffff81037653>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20
May 15 07:00:04 localhost kernel: [102124.342433] <EOI> [<ffffffff810906ba>] ? retrigger_next_event+0x0/0xd3
May 15 07:00:04 localhost kernel: [102124.342433] [<ffffffff810798a6>] ? on_each_cpu+0x41/0x49
May 15 07:00:04 localhost kernel: [102124.342433] [<ffffffff81079891>] ? on_each_cpu+0x2c/0x49
May 15 07:00:04 localhost kernel: [102124.342433] [<ffffffff81095418>] ? do_settimeofday+0x167/0x170
May 15 07:00:04 localhost kernel: [102124.342433] [<ffffffff8107830f>] ? sys_settimeofday+0x74/0x88
May 15 07:00:04 localhost kernel: [102124.342433] [<ffffffff81036c82>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
 
Which kernel do you run on your KVM Lenny guest? Install 2.6.32 inside.
 
Here is the info from uname -a
2.6.33 #1 SMP

This is the only OS that we have experienced problems with.
 
2.6.33 in Lenny, are you sure?
 

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