every 10 minutes the performance counters blank out

[LucasAlbers]

Every ten minutes the performance counters blank out.

Is this caused by the memory scanning?

The machine is also monitored with veeam monitor, but I have not noticed this behavior on any of the other machines I monitor.

My interim step was to stick all the machines in a resource pool and put hte total limit of teh resource limit to 2 GHZ less than the physical cpu limit.

[LucasAlbers]

hmmm, after twaking values, it appears the issue was caused by something on the vi client.

Rebooting the machine running the vi client resolved the issue.

[LucasAlbers]

I can see this same issue occurring on another system.

Ideas on troubleshooting?

[LucasAlbers]

I have determined what is causing the problem.

Every ten minutes on esxi 3.5 it runs this script:

/sbin/decodeSel.sh which collects the ipmi data.

This is causing the performance data blanks.

[J1mbo]

what hardware is this on, for interest? And also which image (standard/hp/dell/ibm)?

[LucasAlbers]

blah,

So far my hypothesis has been soundly disproved:

Namedly the ipmi collection is causing the blank.

So i edited /var/spool/crontabs/root and commented out that collector line, then kill crond and restarted it

ps ax|grep crond.; kill pidnumber; crond -p

and the problem did not go away.

Now I think it is caused by the memory scanning.