[dba-VB] Hyper-V VM oddness

Hans-Christian Andersen hans.andersen at phulse.com
Tue Nov 22 22:59:10 CST 2011


John,

This could also be a sign of heavy IO utilisation that is only being measured in ring 0.

Best regards,
Hans-Christian Andersen


On 22 Nov 2011, at 19:25, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:

> I think I have found the answer to the question, which is that the "host" windows system is not in fact the host system, Hyper-V is the host system.  And Hyper-V is in fact showing 6% usage which is one out of 16 cores.
> 
> Sorry for the ring.
> 
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> 
> Reality is what refuses to go away
> when you do not believe in it
> 
> On 11/22/2011 10:05 PM, jwcolby wrote:
>> I decided to try moving my VMs to Azul server, my "big" server. I figured with 16 cores and 64 gigs
>> it could handle the load. The sole purpose of one of the VMs is to host a third party application.
>> When this app is running the VM says that the single core I assign to it is pegged, 100%
>> utilization. However none of the host machine cores shows any significant usage, and the total
>> server usage bounces between 0 and 1%.
>> 
>> So I'm wondering what the heck is going on? The application on the dedicated VM server was
>> processing about 8-9 million records per hour on a 3.5 GHz AMD quad core, and on that host machine
>> one of the cores would appear to be maxed out and the server would say 25% usage. On the mongo
>> server the CPUs are 2 GHz 8 core and no core says it is busy and I'm only getting about 4 million
>> records / hour. I expected one core to max and the total to say 1/16th total usage.
>> 
>> Any ideas why this VM says it is using 100% of its virtual CPU but the host server says it is not
>> busy at all?
>> 
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