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