Hello all!
Our shop has been using VM Server for a year or so now with no problems to speak of. Recently we have added a terminal services server that our office employees connect to. Since bringing this server online we have been experiencing high "pockets" of CPU Wait %'s.
Here is some information about the OS's and Hardware we are working with:
2x 3.6ghz Xeon
2x 146g 15k U320 in RAID1 array
9 gigs RAM
RHELv4
2.6.17-1.2174_FC5
Windows 2000 Server
Following is vmstat ouput:[/b]
1 0 112 1095988 52568 7440736 0 0 0 78 2534 11092 1 13 6 0 0
0 0 112 1095988 52576 7440728 0 0 0 52 2514 10978 1 11 88 0 0
4 0 112 1095988 52576 7440728 0 0 0 196 2522 10525 1 19 80 0 0
0 0 112 1095988 52576 7440728 0 0 0 130 2506 11107 1 13 85 0 0
1 0 112 1095988 52584 7440720 0 0 0 86 2520 10829 1 13 86 0 0
0 0 112 1095448 52588 7440716 0 0 274 60 2573 11255 1 14 84 1 0
0 0 112 1095448 52596 7440708 0 0 0 112 2447 11081 1 11 88 0 0
1 0 112 1095448 52596 7440708 0 0 0 8 2556 11355 1 12 87 0 0
1 4 112 1095076 52596 7440708 0 0 0 6132 2575 11009 1 15 75 8 0
0 4 112 1095076 52604 7440700 0 0 0 1824 2578 11225 1 14 35 51 0
0 5 112 1095076 52604 7440700 0 0 34 1620 2501 10949 1 13 31 55 0
0 6 112 1094896 52612 7440692 0 0 96 1934 2447 10806 0 11 31 58 0
0 5 112 1094836 52612 7440692 0 0 34 1908 2459 10459 1 15 41 43 0
0 3 112 1094836 52612 7440692 0 0 0 2006 2482 10722 1 13 23 64 0
1 2 112 1094836 52620 7440684 0 0 0 1906 2552 10957 1 12 39 48 0
1 0 112 1094836 52620 7440684 0 0 0 834 2498 11188 1 20 56 22 0[/i][/b]
2 0 112 1094836 52628 7440676 0 0 0 124 2602 11085 1 21 78 0 0
1 0 112 1094836 52628 7440676 0 0 0 1440 2483 11841 1 13 86 1 0
2 0 112 1094712 52628 7440676 0 0 0 28 2526 11058 1 11 88 0 0
3 0 112 1094712 52636 7440668 0 0 0 198 2500 11007 1 12 87 0 0
0 0 112 1094092 52636 7440668 0 0 0 12 2485 10810 1 11 88 0 0
0 0 112 1093968 52644 7440660 0 0 0 92 2450 10793 1 10 90 0 0
0 0 112 1093968 52644 7440660 0 0 0 4 2466 11255 0 11 89 0 0
0 0 112 1093968 52644 7440660 0 0 0 34 2635 10806 1 13 86 0 0
0 0 112 1093968 52652 7440652 0 0 0 26 2448 11004 1 13 86 0 0
1 0 112 1093968 52652 7440652 0 0 0 1116 2565 10954 1 14 85 0 0
1 0 112 1093968 52652 7440652 0 0 0 10 2434 11258 0 11 88 0 0
I have been able to isolate that most of it happens when someone logs into the guest, and then again when they fire up an application.
I added the following statements to the .vmx file:[/b]
mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"
sched.mem.pshare.enable = "FALSE"
MemTrimRate = "0"
It didn't seem to help the situation at all.
I am at a loss as to where to go at this point. Any suggestions would be greatly[/i] apprciated!
Thanks in advance for any help,
Jon Ziminsky
CPS Distributors, Inc.
Denver, Co.
PS. If you need more information, please let me know and i will provide with whatever you need to help me diagnose this!