If you are getting an error like “Kernel NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup error” for your SUSE Linux 12 SP2 OS, then you can check the below parameter to solve it.

Error message from monitoring system looks like the below picture ;

Solution ;

We need to assign value 20 to parameter “kernel.watchdog_thresh” 

Edit the file “/etc/systemd/system.conf” and add the following line;

kernel.watchdog_thresh=20