Figured it out! (sort of).
''top'' reported that ''spamd'' was using up 26%
of the CPU.
Somehow, that cause the system to be 100% utilized.
emike
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E. Mike Durbin
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E. Mike Durbin wrote:> Hi!
>
> Last week I created a fresh S10u6 guest on my Nevada
> laptop. I noticed that after installing the OS, and installing
> CommsSuite 6, that the system performance was questionable.
>
> I''ve have now migrated the running instance to a server,
> but still see strangeness with vmstat.
>
> I have a 2 socket 2 core system (4 cores) with 12GB RAM.
>
> Dom0 has 3GB and 2 vcpus.
> DomU (S10u6) has 3GB and 2 vcpus.
>
> virt-manager reports that DomU is using 49.5% CPU utilization
> (after a system boot, with the system basically idle).
>
> Also, vmstat on DomU looks like this:
>
> # uname -a
> SunOS jes 5.10 Generic_137138-08 i86pc i386 i86pc
> # vmstat 5
> kthr memory page disk faults cpu
> r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr cd s0 -- -- in sy cs us
> sy id
> 3 0 0 4773084 2072976 122 11450 221 28 28 0 117 35 -0 0 0 579 2339 934
> 51 45 4
> 1 0 0 4705748 1861380 31 18133 2 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 478 1256 334 46
> 54 0
> 0 0 0 4729064 1863616 35 18271 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 511 1317 414 48
> 52 0
> 1 0 0 4718560 1861504 30 17123 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 430 748 287 50
> 50 0
> 2 0 0 4700952 1862340 30 17774 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 499 1117 416 47
> 53 0
>
>
> a ''ps -ef'' does not really show anything consuming a lot
of CPU.
>
>
> Can anyone help me figure out what is going on?
>
> emike
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