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What does “INFO: task XXX blocked for more than 120 seconds” exactly mean on Linux?

I had this message in my kernel log : INFO: task XXX blocked for more than 120 seconds. I would like to know what it means technically: under what conditions does the kernel display this message about ...
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High CPU usage with CFS?

I asked a previous question to try and isolate the source of an increase in CPU usage when moving an application from RHEL 5 to RHEL 6. The analysis that I did for that seems to indicate that it is ...
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Isolating cause of higher CPU usage on RHEL 6 vs RHEL 5

I'm currently looking to move our system from RHEL 5 to RHEL 6, but I've run into a snag with unexpectedly high CPU usage on the RHEL 6 machines. It appears that this may be due at least in some part ...