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[Xen-users] Why is Processor Utilization So High within the DomU?

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Subject: [Xen-users] Why is Processor Utilization So High within the DomU?
From: "Robinson, Eric" <eric.robinson@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:37:33 -0700
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We have a 12-core Xeon server with 32GB RAM. On it we have a 1-VCPU DomU
running a Windows 2003 Std. R2 terminal server. When I run PerfMon
within Windows, I see that processor utilization runs very high, on
average 30-50%. Before we virtualized this server, it was running on a
4-core machine with 16GB RAM and processor utilization averaged 5-20%.
Why so much higher now in a DomU environment?

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Eric Robinson


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