I am not sure what the original problem was, but whatever it is, I upgraded from 3.0 as was available in some pre-release version of Etch to the version currently available in Etch (3.0.3), and the problem went away.
This does not go any distance toward explaining why the problem poped up in the first place, or why it did not happen for just under a year since the machine was originally installed, but one way or the other, we are over it now, and things are back on track. Thanks everyone. Shachar Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hi all, > > We have a computer running Windows 2003 as a virtual host inside Xen. A > couple of days ago the computer had a nasty shutdown. After that point, > the Windows guest will simply not use more than 15% of the CPU from the > host machine. I have a Windows machine working slowly, claiming to be at > 100%, but running "xm top" shows that it only uses 12% CPU, and the rest > is idle. > > Aside from the Windows machine, the machine also runs several > paravirtualized Linux machines. While they are naturally running less > close to full capacity, it would appear (I ran "dd if=/dev/urandom > of=/dev/null") that I cannot saturate their CPU use above 15% either. > Unlike the Windows case, running top on the Linux machine actually shows > the CPU as only 15% in use, but this may as well be due to the > difference between the way Windows accounts for unused CPU and the way > Linux does, so I'm not sure what this means. > > Anyone has any thoughts on what the problem may be? I checked the disks, > and they appear not to be hurt. I am fairly certain that this was not > the case prior to the unfortunate power cord pull incident, but I cannot > tell for sure. > > Thanks, > Shachar > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
