- Stan Hoeppner stan@hardwarefreak.com:
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?
No, it's supported, but I don'T want to change the whole system.
Is this the only guest on this host or do you have others?
only guest
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?
Yes, something like that
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.
Udo has to answer that, but from what he told me it was fully using all cpus with 2.0, and now it's idling with 1.2
More details to follow (from him)
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