Linux performance issues when CPU and memory usage are high
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Linux performance issues when CPU and memory usage are high

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Article ID: 419438

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Products

VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

  •  VM's Vnic stats might show out of buffers 

  • You might see high CPU usage on the Vcenter or ESXI 

Environment

VMware ESXI

Cause

The allocated resources on the VM were insufficient for it workload.  

Resolution

Increase the allocated resources on the VM to be able to handle the workload. 

Additional Information

For more information please see the following KBs:

Troubleshooting ESX/ESXi virtual machine performance issues

Verifying the health of an operating system

Large packet loss in the guest OS using VMXNET3 in ESXi

ESXTOP overview for Performance Troubleshooting