[COLUG] VMWare Server vs. CentOS??

[Austin Godber]

On Apr 14, 2008, at 6:07 PM, Chris Clonch wrote:
>
> Likewise, it complied and installed a kernel module for my kernel.   
> Oddly
> enough I just noticed today that top reported vmware consuming 100%  
> of the
> cpu.  Unlike your problem though, I think this has been a gradual
> consumption.  I restarted VMWare and all is as it should be.  I  
> think my
> problem is from a flaky VM that I've been testing.

Keep in mind with VMWare there are lots of different processes running:

* For each running guest there is a vmware-vmx process with the path  
to the guests config file.
* Then there is vmware-serverd which is the guy that the vmware-server- 
client connects to and acts at the interface to everything else.
* an assortment of network related processes that have never caused me  
trouble on a proper install

I somewhat frequently see vmware-serverd crack under pressure (lots of  
boots, new vms, vms deleted while running, etc).  Usually killing it  
and restarting it as root straightens things out without actually  
having to shut everything down.  Though I really don't expect this to  
happen under normal usage.  We have several users who are quite hard  
on vmware server.

Austin