VMware virtual machine hangs due to high load average
Issue
- VMware virtual machine hung with a high load average. The console is not responsive, and unable to log in using ssh.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- VMware Virtual Platform
- open-vm-tools
- Out-of-tree (O) kernel module:
[gsch]
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