High steal% inside vm

Sakis

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Aug 14, 2013
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One proxmox node that hosts only one vm is having high sys% cpu usage. This is translated to high steal% inside vm.

Code:
03:41:18 PM  CPU    %usr   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal  %guest  %gnice   %idle
03:41:20 PM  all    0.24    0.00    5.13    0.01    0.00    0.13    0.00    7.53    0.00   86.96
03:41:22 PM  all    0.23    0.00    1.85    0.01    0.00    0.11    0.00    5.34    0.00   92.47
03:41:24 PM  all    2.98    0.00    2.75    0.04    0.00    0.22    0.00    5.19    0.00   88.81
03:41:26 PM  all    8.31    0.00    6.61    0.13    0.00    0.48    0.00   10.45    0.00   74.01
03:41:28 PM  all    3.67    0.00    3.40    0.14    0.00    0.30    0.00    8.88    0.00   83.62
03:41:30 PM  all    0.33    0.00    2.99    0.01    0.00    0.13    0.00    8.45    0.00   88.08
03:41:32 PM  all    0.13    0.00    2.22    0.01    0.00    0.09    0.00    7.93    0.00   89.63
03:41:34 PM  all    0.30    0.00    2.84    0.03    0.00    0.09    0.00    8.84    0.00   87.90
03:41:36 PM  all    4.97    0.00    6.09    0.04    0.00    0.39    0.00   11.48    0.00   77.03
03:41:38 PM  all    1.97    0.00    2.31    0.04    0.00    0.20    0.00    8.40    0.00   87.09
03:41:40 PM  all    0.47    0.00    1.17    0.01    0.00    0.10    0.00    6.44    0.00   91.81
03:41:42 PM  all    0.30    0.00    1.03    0.00    0.00    0.11    0.00    6.14    0.00   92.42
03:41:44 PM  all    0.34    0.00    1.26    0.02    0.00    0.16    0.00    6.07    0.00   92.15
03:41:46 PM  all    0.28    0.00    6.13    0.07    0.00    0.13    0.00    7.92    0.00   85.47
03:41:48 PM  all    0.31    0.00    6.38    0.04    0.00    0.13    0.00    9.32    0.00   83.82
03:41:50 PM  all    0.13    0.00    2.87    0.00    0.00    0.05    0.00   10.57    0.00   86.38
03:41:52 PM  all    0.29    0.00    5.19    0.00    0.00    0.09    0.00    7.72    0.00   86.71
03:41:54 PM  all    0.51    0.00    9.60    0.03    0.00    0.14    0.00    6.15    0.00   83.57
03:41:56 PM  all    8.98    0.00   30.40    0.13    0.00    0.54    0.00   11.56    0.00   48.39
03:41:58 PM  all    5.38    0.00   13.82    0.15    0.00    0.32    0.00   15.75    0.00   64.58
03:42:00 PM  all    0.33    0.00    3.92    0.01    0.00    0.11    0.00    6.43    0.00   89.19
03:42:02 PM  all    0.47    0.00    6.91    0.01    0.00    0.12    0.00   14.07    0.00   78.42
03:42:04 PM  all    1.66    0.00    3.08    0.02    0.00    0.20    0.00    8.46    0.00   86.59
03:42:06 PM  all    3.08    0.00    4.81    0.03    0.00    0.19    0.00    7.80    0.00   84.10
03:42:08 PM  all    0.47    0.00    3.43    0.03    0.00    0.09    0.00    6.59    0.00   89.39
03:42:10 PM  all    0.21    0.00    5.96    0.00    0.00    0.09    0.00   10.54    0.00   83.20
03:42:12 PM  all    0.43    0.00   19.77    0.01    0.00    0.11    0.00    8.52    0.00   71.17
03:42:14 PM  all    0.39    0.00   52.95    0.03    0.00    0.12    0.00    6.34    0.00   40.17
03:42:16 PM  all    0.20    0.00   46.48    0.01    0.00    0.07    0.00    4.69    0.00   48.55
03:42:18 PM  all    0.33    0.00   49.90    0.04    0.00    0.09    0.00    5.56    0.00   44.08
03:42:20 PM  all    0.24    0.00   64.51    0.01    0.00    0.09    0.00    4.04    0.00   31.12
03:42:22 PM  all    0.09    0.00   59.57    0.01    0.00    0.09    0.00    8.43    0.00   31.82
03:42:24 PM  all    3.16    0.00   59.57    0.02    0.00    0.21    0.00    7.84    0.00   29.20
03:42:26 PM  all    7.00    0.00   52.29    0.10    0.00    0.37    0.00   10.24    0.00   30.00
03:42:28 PM  all    0.23    0.00   59.77    0.04    0.00    0.09    0.00    8.21    0.00   31.66
03:42:30 PM  all    0.44    0.00   45.68    0.02    0.00    0.11    0.00   14.33    0.00   39.43
03:42:32 PM  all    0.35    0.00   39.61    0.00    0.00    0.11    0.00   12.37    0.00   47.55
03:42:34 PM  all    3.15    0.00   46.89    0.05    0.00    0.28    0.00   14.92    0.00   34.70
03:42:36 PM  all    2.81    0.00   48.19    0.05    0.00    0.24    0.00   13.05    0.00   35.66

03:42:36 PM  CPU    %usr   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal  %guest  %gnice   %idle
03:42:38 PM  all    2.78    0.00   46.98    0.06    0.00    0.26    0.00   14.16    0.00   35.77
03:42:40 PM  all    0.20    0.00   17.77    0.01    0.00    0.06    0.00   25.83    0.00   56.13
03:42:42 PM  all    0.31    0.00    4.62    0.01    0.00    0.11    0.00    8.88    0.00   86.07
03:42:44 PM  all    0.34    0.00    6.48    0.02    0.00    0.11    0.00   10.41    0.00   82.64
03:42:46 PM  all    3.67    0.00    9.87    0.02    0.00    0.32    0.00    9.28    0.00   76.85
03:42:48 PM  all    0.31    0.00    5.72    0.02    0.01    0.13    0.00    6.35    0.00   87.47
03:42:50 PM  all    0.49    0.00   10.57    0.01    0.00    0.18    0.00   11.06    0.00   77.69
03:42:52 PM  all    0.32    0.00    6.17    0.00    0.00    0.13    0.00    7.50    0.00   85.88

Nothing strange running on proxmox node. Any help on debugging high sys% usage in this node?