Comment 0 for bug 1793219

Reported at Debian as well, see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=909146 :

There is an unhandled overflow issue in open-vm-tools in the code for guest stats reporting. This cause artifacts (spikes) in rate stats, for example "Guest|Page In Rate per second". This issue only affects 32 bit builds of open-vm-tools.

We have a fix for 10.3.x at
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/commit/c7a186e204cdff46b5e02bcb5208ef8979eaf261

The fix has also been backported to 10.2.5 in a special branch:
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/tree/stable-10.2.5-stat-overflow-fix

Thanks,
Oliver