Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
Oh, one more thing.. is it only the guest VM taking cpu time when you monitor with "xm top"?
Do you have the latest service packs installed in the guest?
Have you tried monitoring the performance from inside the guest, to figure out what takes cpu time there?
-- Pasi
The guest is running XP w/ SP3. It is not just the guest VM taking cpu time. Basically, whatever process I am doing hits 100% cpu usage in Windows. If I open IE, it will use 100% cpu for a bit while it opens. If I try to click on a website, it will do it again. Thus, it is causing a very sluggish session as it keeps pausing. It isn't just IE, it's any program I try to use. This CPU usage is reflected in xm top as both the guest's CPU% will hit 100% as will Dom-0.
I have done pretty much everything specified in the Xen Best Practices. In fact, I have dedicated 4GB to Dom-0.
Thanks,
- Ryan