esxi - high system cpu load

From: Chrysostomos Kanoulis <kach_at_gmx.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 00:46:58 +0200
Hello,

The following output is from a virtual machine on ESXi 4.1. 
I am experiencing high system cpu loads whenever i try to compile anything, 
making it difficult to even update the system.

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root_at_lab:~ # uname -a
FreeBSD lab.local 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Dec 30 10:45:18 UTC 2012     root_at_snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/i386.i386/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
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root_at_lab:~ # top
last pid: 45416;  load averages:  1.10,  1.08,  1.08                                                                                                                     up 1+23:24:19  22:06:25
36 processes:  2 running, 34 sleeping
CPU: 12.2% user,  0.0% nice, 87.8% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0% idle
Mem: 273M Active, 62M Inact, 109M Wired, 11M Cache, 59M Buf, 27M Free
Swap: 819M Total, 8996K Used, 810M Free, 1% Inuse
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root_at_lab:~ # vmstat 1
 procs      memory      page                    disks     faults         cpu
 r b w     avm    fre   flt  re  pi  po    fr  sr da0 cd0   in   sy   cs us sy id
 1 0 0    398M    37M   325   0   0   0   334   2   0   0    3   69  149  0  4 96
 1 0 0    398M    37M  5195   0   2   0  5318   0   2   0    7 1335  163 47 53  0
 1 1 0    373M    37M  5374   0   0   0  5337   0   0   0    7 1395  157 45 55  0
 1 0 0    394M    39M 10096   0   0   0 10724   0   0   0    7  965  198  4 96  0
 1 0 0    408M    30M  7602   0   1   0  5347   0   1   0    4 1630  150 32 68  0
 1 0 0    354M    54M  6540   0   0   0 12687   0   0   0    5 1206  162 26 74  0
 1 0 0    409M    26M 10452   0   2   0  3373   0   3   0    9 1592  208 10 90  0
 1 0 0    398M    34M  4184   0   1   0  6316   0   2   0    5  929  153 52 48  0
 1 0 0    369M    41M  3637   0   0   0  5337   0   0   0    5 1371  152 54 46  0
 2 0 0    362M    42M 10285   0   0   0 10710   0   0   0    6  959  185  5 95  0

Any suggestions ?
Received on Mon Jan 07 2013 - 21:47:22 UTC

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