void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've been using Solaris a lot lately, and I've noticed that in e.g.
> top's output, it has a distinct CPU state called "iowait", which seems
> to be a pretty good indicator of how I/O-bound a system is. Is there
> any reason that FreeBSD doesn't have such a state?
It has several, depending on the type of I/O the process is waiting
for: biord (waiting for a read operation to complete), biowr (waiting
for a write operation to complete), select (waiting for descriptors to
become readable / writable), etc.
DES
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