Re: [qubes-users] Re: Xen high CPU usage, but nothing is running in the VM

2017-06-18 Thread Chris Laprise
On 06/18/2017 10:01 AM, qubenix wrote: 'Vincent Adultman' via qubes-users: This happens to me sometimes on the current Xen/Linux versions. When I look at top in the offending VM its "kswapd" that has gone berserk. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@openmailbox.org https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Xen high CPU usage, but nothing is running in the VM

2017-06-18 Thread qubenix
'Vincent Adultman' via qubes-users: > This happens to me sometimes on the current Xen/Linux versions. When I > look at top in the offending VM its "kswapd" that has gone berserk. > > -- > > Chris Laprise, tas...@openmailbox.org > https://twitter.com/ttaskett > PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Xen high CPU usage, but nothing is running in the VM

2017-06-18 Thread 'Vincent Adultman' via qubes-users
This happens to me sometimes on the current Xen/Linux versions. When I look at top in the offending VM its "kswapd" that has gone berserk. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@openmailbox.org https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- I can confirm I've also

[qubes-users] Re: Xen high CPU usage, but nothing is running in the VM

2017-06-18 Thread lokedhs
On Sunday, 18 June 2017 14:54:03 UTC+8, Vít Šesták wrote: > BTW, I remember having such issue (including real CPU load), but that time, > avahi-daemon was to blame, related to VPN. But it was shown in htop. Disabling > avahi-daemon has helped. > > On recreating VMs (or VM templates): It might

[qubes-users] Re: Xen high CPU usage, but nothing is running in the VM

2017-06-17 Thread cooloutac
On Saturday, June 17, 2017 at 6:41:00 AM UTC-4, lok...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, 17 June 2017 18:35:39 UTC+8, Vít Šesták wrote: > > What CPU usage does Qubes Manager show? I guess is shows low CPU usage. > > > > Do you see any other symptoms of high CPU usage like heat or fan activity? >

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Xen high CPU usage, but nothing is running in the VM

2017-06-17 Thread Vít Šesták
Interesting, I'd expect kswapd to be capable of performing I/O berserk, nou CPU berserk. The only CPU-intensive part should be dm-crypt, but it runs in dom0, not in standard AppVMs (unless you adjust it accordingly). Regards, Vít Šesták 'v6ak' -- You received this message because you are

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Xen high CPU usage, but nothing is running in the VM

2017-06-17 Thread Chris Laprise
On 06/17/2017 06:40 AM, loke...@gmail.com wrote: I've restarted the offending VM's now, so I can't test anymore. The fan was blowing at maximum speed (which is why I looked into this in the first place) so there was definitely something happening. The VM that was running with the most CPU

[qubes-users] Re: Xen high CPU usage, but nothing is running in the VM

2017-06-17 Thread lokedhs
On Saturday, 17 June 2017 18:35:39 UTC+8, Vít Šesták wrote: > What CPU usage does Qubes Manager show? I guess is shows low CPU usage. > > Do you see any other symptoms of high CPU usage like heat or fan activity? > > I guess the Xen just allocates some CPU time for some VMs, but the time is