Hi
Currently i'm deleting about 500.000 files on a XFS-filesystem which takes a few minutes, as i had a top open i saw that 'wa' is shown as 0.0% (Nothing else running currently) and everything except 'id' is near the bottom too. Kernel is 2.6.23.11. So, as 'rm -rf' is essentially a IO (or seek, to be more correct)-bound task, shouldn't that count as "Waiting for IO"? The man-page of top says: 'Amount of time the CPU has been waiting for I/O to complete.' But AFAICT wa only seams to be (ac)counted for writing and not for reading. I come to that conclusion because, when i fire 'sync' i can see some percent wa for a few seconds. Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
