Re: [gentoo-user] problem getting wifi card to route to internet

2020-07-26 Thread Adam Carter
> > Have you set the default route and enabled ip forwarding? > > > > Also you don’t need to add a route for connected interfaces > Thanks for your quick response. Packet forwarding is enabled and I am > using shorewall to have normal firewall settings. > Ok so can the WLAN clients ping the inter

[gentoo-user] OT: Can a linux vmware guest tell if its host is CPU constrained?

2020-07-26 Thread Adam Carter
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?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Can a linux vmware guest tell if its host is CPU constrained?

2020-07-26 Thread Ashley Dixon
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 d

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Can a linux vmware guest tell if its host is CPU constrained?

2020-07-26 Thread Adam Carter
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 1:35 PM Ashley Dixon 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 to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Can a linux vmware guest tell if its host is CPU constrained?

2020-07-26 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 02:21:06PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 1:35 PM Ashley Dixon wrote: > > 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 fi