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Ant_222
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‎09-20-2019 09:41 AM

esxtop showing high %SWPWT with all VMs off

Hello, all

On one of our ESXi hosts, esxtop is showing a constantly high %SWPWT even when all the VMs are off. It is around 20-40% most of the time but often rises to 90%. It all comes from the gsSwapRefill subprocess (ID 65622) of the system process (GID 1). I believe it an abnormal situation. How can I find out what is causing this constant swapping?

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DavoudTeimouri
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‎09-22-2019 06:50 AM

Please let us know the version of ESXi with build number and also if possible restart the ESXi host.

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Ant_222
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‎09-23-2019 02:21 AM

Our exact version is: VMware ESXi 6.5.0 build-4564106. We have already restarted it several times while trying to fix the problem. It didn't help. Edit: An identical error came up in the Chiniese forum, but I can't translate it.

Edit2: Could you perhaps answer an off-topic question: how to activate e-mail notifications for this thread? Unlike standard foums (e.g. PhpBB), this one does not seem to provide a subscribe/unsubscribe functionality...

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depping
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‎09-23-2019 02:26 AM

I have never seen this personally. I would recommend filing a support request, as it could be a bug.

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