CPU Spikes in a Hyper-V VM
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How many vCPU do you have assigned?
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Are you doing full scans or targeted scans? Do you have any files/folders in the exclusion list?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Is that a Sybase DB running? That is a lot of CPU there.
That is the DB for Symantec SEP...again, currently not running...
It just happened again now:
We are running 2 virtual processors.
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@Bill-Kindle said:
Are you doing full scans or targeted scans? Do you have any files/folders in the exclusion list?
Currently, Anti-Virus services are off. Going to check the settings again tonight when I turn it back on after hours...
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Should I give it 4 CPU's? Is that not excessive for just a file server, albeit heavily used one?
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You should be giving less vCPUs, not more.
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@garak0410 said:
Should I give it 4 CPU's? Is that not excessive for just a file server, albeit heavily used one?
Not likely. But it depends on many factors.
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@garak0410 said:
@PSX_Defector said:
You should be giving less vCPUs, not more.
So perhaps try one tonight?
Very un
@garak0410 said:
@PSX_Defector said:
You should be giving less vCPUs, not more.
So perhaps try one tonight?
very unlikely to be the culprit but doesn't hurt to try.
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Weird posting thing there.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@garak0410 said:
@PSX_Defector said:
You should be giving less vCPUs, not more.
So perhaps try one tonight?
@garak0410 said:
@PSX_Defector said:
You should be giving less vCPUs, not more.
So perhaps try one tonight?
very unlikely to be the culprit but doesn't hurt to try.
Got to try something...because I am taking 1/2 day off tomorrow...LOL. Will try tonight...
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Important to consider that malware is a possibility. Do a scan with some third party scanners to improve confidence. Such a new system, unlikely to be infected but you never know.
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If you bring up performance monitor, what files are being written/read? Even if the disk activity is relatively low, it gives you an idea of what the process is doing by the files it's interacting with.
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It had no malware.
So, powered it off and took away a virtual CPU.
It took forever and a day to boot up and even when I finally got a login screen, it takes forever to get its services started (Welcome, Policy Registration, Local Session Manager takes forever to come up). Then a black screen for a good while and finally the desktop. And waiting and waitng for it to let me input. Server Manager creeps to a start. The right click I did on the task bar so I could get the task manager took over a minute to give me the context menu...finally got task manger up and for sure, back to 99% CPU with Symantec and Service Host taking most of it.
This is terrible It has to be some kind of VM setting wrong. But it wasn't this bad yesterday.
I am about to bring up resource monitor but it is taking forever as well...
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@Nara said:
If you bring up performance monitor, what files are being written/read? Even if the disk activity is relatively low, it gives you an idea of what the process is doing by the files it's interacting with.
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Expand the middle row and sort by total.
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THis is at night with no one using it?
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And what is SDtray?
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@scottalanmiller said:
THis is at night with no one using it?
Yes... Right now, I am attempting to reboot the host...but the file server VM is not shutting down well.
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Spybot?
