From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Can a linux vmware guest tell if its host is CPU constrained?
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 14:21:06 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC=wYCGCnhezL5YvjqbPZ08rrQK1J0keJuHCSUFnSR8NbrUhtQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200727033401.xr4dhyyx32zxjeer@ad-gentoo-main>
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On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 1:35 PM Ashley Dixon <ash@suugaku.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 01:23:46PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote:
> > Having performance issues on a linux vmware guest that doesnt run vmtools
> > because its an 'appliance', but it does allow shell access. I assume CPU
> > utilisation shown by top etc is the utilisation of the vCPUs. Is there
> any
> > way to discover or infer host CPU issues?
>
> Do you mean that you want to monitor the host system from the guest? Can
> you not
> just SSH into the host from the guest? You can also infer CPU usage
> from the
> /proc/stat file on the host system, if you can share files over NFS
> or some
> other file-sharing means.
>
I have ssh access (including root) to the guest but no access to the host.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-27 4:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-27 3:23 [gentoo-user] OT: Can a linux vmware guest tell if its host is CPU constrained? Adam Carter
2020-07-27 3:34 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-07-27 4:21 ` Adam Carter [this message]
2020-07-27 4:36 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-07-27 15:01 ` Sid Spry
2020-07-28 2:24 ` Adam Carter
2020-07-28 16:56 ` Sid Spry
2020-07-30 0:51 ` Adam Carter
2020-07-30 19:36 ` Jeremi Piotrowski
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