-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/07 09:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:42:51AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: >> >From man top: >> >> wa -- iowait >> Amount of time the CPU has been waiting for I/O to complete. > > In other words, the CPU is idling, waiting for something to do.
NO, it's not *idling*. It's *waiting*. That's why wa and id are broken out separately. What 95.3% wa *means* is that his disks (or video card or some bus) are too slow, and thus the CPU, which *wants* to do something, can't. > > -- hendrik > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF5a00S9HxQb37XmcRArc8AJ9ixE2wXLR+Hf8syX5dVrHEESouzgCcCBK2 VKzcvYrKYfVIV/IiXCkNJyw= =mnGS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
