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On 9/22/05, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:59:55 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > I'm looking at this mythbackend server machine using top. Sometimes |
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> > the CPU usage goes to essentially 100%, but only in the 'wa' section. |
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> > What is 'wa'? I searched through the man page but didn't see anything |
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> > about this. |
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> Waiting. I usually see it go up during heavy disk I/O. |
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Thanks Neil. That's helpful. |
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Seems strange to me that I saw a lot of 'waiting' while this one |
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'fireworkx' screensaver even in xscreensaver-demo. Basically I'm |
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getting a pretty consistent |
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12 % CPU |
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42% Nice |
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40% Waiting |
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It appears to me that when the screensaver burns up that much |
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horsepower, whether it's CPU+Nice or CPU+Nice+Waiting, then |
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mythbackend is having trouble. My first test of recording something |
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new but making sure a low power screensaver was in effect worked just |
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fine. |
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Again, thanks for the info. |
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- Mark |
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