I was planning to manage 3 real servers behind ZLB and 600 concurrent 
petitions...

not necessary 8 cpu's?

When cpu is 100% can't access machine, so can't type "top"

Jaume Ponsa

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El 08/02/12 13:27, David Martin (IT) escribió:
> Is there a performance reason why you have 8 vCPUs assigned to the VM?
> Unless you are planning an absolutely massive load-balance pool that can
> actually use this arrangement you should drop this considerably
> according to VMWare best practice.
>
> My understanding is that, every time you introduce another vCPU, the
> overhead for context-switches, register flushes, synchronisation and the
> like increases considerably, especially when you are spreading the vCPUs
> across different dies.
>
> Unless you have applications that absolutely have to have access to the
> CPU power, you really want to cut the cores to the bare minimum. Try
> starting with 1vCPU and 4GB RAM and work your way up until you start to
> hit performance limits.
>
> Also, when you are seeing 100% CPU usage, what does the output of the
> "Top" command show?
>
> Regards
>
> David
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jaume Ponsa [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 08 February 2012 10:28
> To: '[email protected]'
> Subject: [Zenloadbalancer-support] question
>
> Hello all... I have one testing v2RC1 installation on a vmware virtual
> machine.
>
> I have no more traffic (only tests) and I don't know why, 2 times,
> system hangs ..... the reason is cpu becomes 100% usage and system
> becomes unusable.... can anyone  help me pleas?
>
> I don't think will be a hardware problem, because i have other machines
> running perfectly, and for this Zen machine I reserved 4Gb RAM and 8 CPU
> Xeon E5620
>
> I installed ther kernel 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem to allow more than 4Gb RAM
> (in future I'll assign 16Gb ).  May be have to install
> linux-image-2.6.32-5-vserver-686-bigmem kernel???
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Jaume
>
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