CPU utilization of guest OS differs from host systems cpu usage

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Issue

  • We are seeing sometimes, the CPU utilization for a particular process inside the guest OS is going above 90%, though at the same if we check the CPU utilization from vSphere performance tab, it is not going beyond 30%.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8
  • VMware ESXi 5.5.0

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