On Nov 21, 2007 4:54 PM, Alastair McKinley <amckinley03@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am running fedora 8 under vmplayer and im having a strange issue > with ksoftirqd. > The system is constantly using about 25%-30% cpu used by ksoftirq. I > was running fedora 7 under vmplayer with no such issues. > > Attached is an excerpt from top. > > I'm not sure what other information I need to investigate this. > > Anyone any ideas? > > Best regards and thanks, > > Alastair ksoftirq CPU usage usually spikes when there's a lot of network traffic going on. Did you install the vmware-tools (on the guest)? - Gilboa
