So one of my worker nodes is, to put it mildly, rather unhappy: Message from syslogd@openstack-w1 at Jul 25 15:57:49 ... kernel:NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 22s! [vnc_worker:9141] Message from syslogd@openstack-w1 at Jul 25 15:57:57 ... kernel:NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#10 stuck for 22s! [migration/10:60] Message from syslogd@openstack-w1 at Jul 25 15:58:05 ... kernel:NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#8 stuck for 22s! [migration/8:49] I found out when it was taking 30 min to delete a guest. So, what I can do in a forceful way? 1. How to kill the guest? Can I kill it through virsh or openstack compute service will get sad? 2. What would happen if I stop the compute service? 3. What would happen if I get really annoyed and tell worker node to reboot?