VMware Server 1.0.5 on Windows 2003 SP2, 32bit. The CPU time of vmware-authd.exe is over 36h (over 35h of it kernel time). The uptime of the (host) server is 45 days. The CPU Usage history of vmware-authd.exe shows frequent periodic spikes in CPU usage at about 20%. Infrequent higher spikes (40%) are also observed.
There is only one running virtual machine. VMware DHCP Service and VMware NAT Service are not started. Currently the memory usage of vmware-authd.exe is about 2MB. No excessive memory usage is observed.
It appears that similar problem was reported last month in http://communities.vmware.com/message/903940 .
Is there any way to lower the CPU usage of vmware-authd.exe?
Thanks