VMWare Pentest lab: Extremely high CPU on host

Supermule · May 12, 2013, 2:46 PM

Try the 4.1 instead.

It could be interesting to see if its a 5.x issue.

jp141 · May 12, 2013, 3:04 PM

I was on 4.1, I just went to 5.1 :)

Its not as bad with 5.1 and 5.1 seems to manage the cpus much better all machines are using less but it is still unusable :(

Supermule · May 12, 2013, 3:19 PM

Hmmmm that is pretty weird!!

jp141 · May 12, 2013, 3:26 PM

Eurika, I think I may have fixed it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just doing some testing now ;D

jp141 · May 12, 2013, 3:53 PM

It would appear that I have resolved this in my situation anyway.

It turned out to be the physical nic setting in vmware was set to 100meg full duplex.

I changed this to auto negotiate and it still negotiates to 100meg full deplux but the problem totally goes away!!

If I switch it back to specifying 100meg full duplex I get the problem again so it is defiantly that setting.

Thanks for the help Supermule

So if anyone is having similar issues check this setting!