On 6/30/11, m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > Here's another one, that I got from another admin talking to VMware: watch > out just how many virtual CPUs you assign to each VM. If you've assigned > 4, it is actually going to sit there waiting until it gets 4 virtual CPUs. > As of '09, VMware was recommending assigning 2. That was one of the first thing I was careful about when setting this one up. The guests got 1 and 2 cores, leaving 1 spare core to the host. I manually pinned the guest to specific cores as well to avoid any potential issues from spinlocking. But not helping apparently.