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| From: | Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] top - 99.9% wa? What's 'wa'? | ||
| Date: | Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:12:06 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20050923010231.0e712841@hactar.digimed.co.uk | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] top - 99.9% wa? What's 'wa'? by Mark Knecht |
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| 1 | On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:59:55 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > I'm looking at this mythbackend server machine using top. Sometimes |
| 4 | > the CPU usage goes to essentially 100%, but only in the 'wa' section. |
| 5 | > What is 'wa'? I searched through the man page but didn't see anything |
| 6 | > about this. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Waiting. I usually see it go up during heavy disk I/O. |
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| 10 | |
| 11 | -- |
| 12 | Neil Bothwick |
| 13 | |
| 14 | You know it's going to be a bad day when you forget your new password. |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] top - 99.9% wa? What's 'wa'? | Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> |