Hi All,
I've got a problem with vmtoolsd.exe consuming large amounts of CPU on a 2003R2 XenApp VM which I can't get to the bottom of.
Basically vmtoolsd.exe spikes to 40% every 30 seconds. As the machine gets more users on it (and hence more active memory) the duration of the spike increases until eventually the spikes merge into a continuous 40%. This renders the XenApp user sessions unresponsive.
Anyone got any ideas?
Hello Steve,
have you solved the problem with "vmtoolsd.exe"?
I have the same problem.
Thanks and bye
Sorry - should have posted up what I found.
It turned out the perfmon counters were corrupted during the conversion to a provisioned disk (To see if this is your problem, open perfmon & try adding a counter - if they all show up as numbers rather than names then they are corrupt). Fixing them has resolved my problem with vmtoolsd.exe.
HTH.
Hi Steve,
you are right - they all show up as numbers rather than names.
How can I fix ist?
Thank you very much.
I fixed my problem using this article from Microsoft - How to manually rebuild Perfmon counter
Yes, it works.
Thank you very very much for help.
Have you done the section "Re-add the extensible counters"?
Hi, it´s me again.
the only thing I had to do is to perform this command:
c:\windows\system32\lodctr /R
After that CPU-Load for vmtoolsd.exe is at 0%
Is that right?