Hi,
machine1: 2x Intel Xeon 3.0GHz DualCore, 16GB RAM, SATA RAID1 and RAID5 disk subsystems.
Using VMware Server.
My host operating system is Debian Etch 4.0 x64 at machine1. Works like a charm, 2x network NIC tested at 1 gbps - works super. Hard disk test - copy super fast betwen RAID1 (2x 500gb) and RAID5 (4x 500gb).
I have hosts: Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard 64 bit, FreeBSD 6.2 64 bit.
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machine2: 2x AMD Opteron 2.0Ghz, 4GB RAM, SATA RAID5 disk subsystem.
Using VMware Workstation.
My host operating system is Windows Server 2003 32 bit at machine2. Works like a charm, 2x network NIC tested at 1 gbps - works super. Hard disk test - copy super fast betwen RAID5 (3x 320gb).
I have hosts: Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise 32 bit, openSuse 10.1 32 bit.
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Now, let get to my PROBLEMS:
At all my virtual machines (hosts) i'm experiencing problems with HIGH CPU load when performing high hard disk or network operations. Why is this so??? Example - I want to do copy of some 700 MB file from one disk to other (on same virtual machine) and the CPU load gets high - up to 95%. Similar when trying to upload fia FTP from outside world to virtual machine (all in 1gbps network) and the load on the virtual machine cpu gets hight - up to 95%.
In logs there is nothing strange except the famous:
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vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.095 seconds (ok)
vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.016 seconds (ok)
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This kind of problems I'm experiencing in both machines (Server and Workstation) and in all guests.
I'm sure there must be some workaround to solve this problems. Had anyone also experienced this kind of problems, troubles?
Thanks!