Ralf Hildebrandt put forth on 11/6/2010 10:33 AM:
- Ralf Hildebrandt Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de:
I'm still using i686 systems, but I wouldn't think that would change the version of GCC that gets installed. I'm not sure if this may be playing a role in this problem or not. What kernel version are you running, stock Debian or rolled from source?
2.6.32-23-generic-pae, from Ubuntu
I'm using this one because the bigmem kernels in Debian had some problems (being: bigmem not working at all, it was not compiled in)
And I'm guessing you're running a 32bit PAE kernel because VMWare ESX still doesn't officially support 64bit guests, correct? Or are you using another hypervisor that also has such a limitation?
Is this the only guest on this host or do you have others? If this is the only guest, you have 2 dual core dies in that Xeon CPU, 4 cores total. I assume you've assigned 4 virtual CPUs to this Debian VM?
You may want to run top in the hypervisor console itself (or an SSH session into the hypervisor) and watch the %CPU of the hypervisor's kernel threads. That might tell us something as well.
-- Stan