Upgrade to ESX5.1 - High CPU, but VM idles

Hi everybody,

after an update from ESX 4.1 to 5.1.0 (838463) I got a problem with one Linux VM.

The VM runs Suse Enterprise Linux in 32 bit and is idle 90% of the time normally.

If I run "top" at the OS shell it tells me the machine is 99% idle, but at the same time vCenter says the machine would use 3500 to 4000 MHz.

I did the virtual hardware upgrade to vmx-09, so I can´t shift the VM back to a ESX 4.1 Host for testing.

So I can´t tell if the problem arises from the virtual hardware change or the shift to ESX5.1.

Anyone else who got that problem and maybe solved it?

Regards

Florian Götz

Edit:

The most recent version of the vmware-tools is installed.

RAM usage is normal, like before the upgrade. Only CPU usage is out of limits.

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