I installed ESXi 6 Update 1 on my 5 year old HP EliteBook 8540p at home. When all VM:s is shut down the CPU usage is around 60%.
In colum %USED in ESXTOP I see that helper uses around 100.
ID GID NAME NWLD %USED %RUN %SYS %WAIT %VMWAIT %RDY %IDLE %OVRL
9 9 helper 158 100.01 94.62 0.00 15711.38 - 0.25 0.00 0.
if give the command 'e 9' to expand the GID I get this:
ID GID NAME NWLD %USED %RUN %SYS %WAIT %VMWAIT %RDY %IDLE %OVRL
32796 9 helper0-0 1 101.98 94.47 0.00 5.42 - 0.06 0.00 0.1
32797 9 helper1-0 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.95 - 0.00 0.00 0.0
32798 9 helper1-1 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.95 - 0.00 0.00 0.0
32799 9 helper1-2 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.95 - 0.00 0.00 0.0
If I look at the hosts at work helper is consuming almost nothing.
What is helper/helper0-0? How can I get it to use less CPU?
