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"Mark Haney" <mhaney@××××××××××××.org> posted |
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45E43797.9070108@××××××××××××.org, excerpted below, on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 |
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08:52:23 -0500: |
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> I've googled and read the man page on TOP, but I cannot find what this |
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> particular indicator is for. When I run top I have this line: |
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> Cpu(s): 18.0% us, 7.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 74.7% wa, 0.0% hi, |
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> 0.0% si |
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> What I can't find is what the 'wa' percentage is for. Does anyone one |
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> know? |
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As Homer mentions, that's i/o-wait, the time the CPU is stuck waiting for |
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the slow hard drive to send it data, with nothing to do until it gets it. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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