(In reply to Mike Latimer from comment #9) > (In reply to Per Jessen from comment #8) > > (In reply to Jan Beulich from comment #7) > > > If this is with kernel-xen, please try suppressing use of C-states in the > > > hypervisor. If this is with kernel-default (i.e. pv-ops), please try > > > switching to kernel-xen. > > > > This is in Dom0. > > With the move to a pvops enabled -default kernel (in Tumbleweed), the fact > that this is dom0 doesn't really answer the question. Can you provide the > output of `uname -a` to confirm you are running kernel-xen? FYI, this is Leap 42.1, not TW. uname -a Linux guest57 4.1.15-8-xen #1 SMP Wed Jan 20 16:41:00 UTC 2016 (0e3b3ab) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I have now booted once with max_cstate=3, I still had at least one halt. I'll do a few more boot-ups and shutdowns.