CentOS5 guest consumes 40% CPU while idling

[pepelton]

I just upgraded to build 5608 unders Mac OSX Leopard (MacBook Pro 2.6GHz Core2Duo with 4gigs RAM). I reinstalled Parallel Tools after upgrade.

Regarding to OSX Activity Monitor my CentOS5 (RHEL5 clone) guest installation (768M RAM) is now consuming minimum 40% of CPU while idling. I do not remember it doing this before the update. My Windows guest consumes <10% whiled idling. Inside the linux guest prluserd is consuming about 13% of CPU (see screenshot of top command output attached).

Anyone else experiencing similiar issues?

 

[pepelton]

I did a fresh CentOS 5.2 installation, installed parallel tools and all updates. Still the same situation: 40% CPU usage.

The Activity monitor sample is attached as to this reply.

 

[jrhodes]

Here is my sample of a CentOS 5.2 VM that has been suspended. OSX is reporting that Parallels is using about 3% in this state.

 

[John@Parallels]

Please create ticket in support, I reproduced it, but I need more information
Please post here ticket ID we continue troubleshooting

 

[geychaner]

Is there any resolution on this? Does the latest version of Parallels Tools posted in other threads fix this? (I am seeing this problem too.)

 

[John@Parallels]

Tools were rewritten, please try to use build 5624
http://download.parallels.com/stuff/Parallels-Desktop-5624-Mac-en.dmg

 

[geychaner]

Doesn't help. In fact, I still see 30-40% CPU usage on my Macbook after shutting down Linux and reaching the "System halted" message. Once I stop the VM, the CPU usage goes away.

 

[John@Parallels]

Everyone who meets problem with Centos CPU usage - please create ticket in support and submit ticket ID here, you will be asked several logs files, I need to provide to developers

 

[geychaner]

Ticket #591139 created.

 

[geychaner]

Opened the ticket, sent the requested files...now what?

 

[John@Parallels]

Problem will be submitted to developers, you will receive reply in ticket when developers found problem