Re: [gentoo-user] top - 99.9% wa? What's 'wa'?

On 9/23/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:52:17 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: 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. Why are you running a

Re: [gentoo-user] top - 99.9% wa? What's 'wa'?

DMA is essentially the AVOIDANCE of using the CPU for I/O. The CPU makes a few calls to the chipset (in the case of ATA DMA), and the rest happens around the processor, not threw it. Jason It's described in the vmstat man page. You're supposed to be clairvoyant about these things and know

[gentoo-user] top - 99.9% wa? What's 'wa'?

Hi, 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. I'm suspecting that this machine has stopped being able to keep up

Re: [gentoo-user] top - 99.9% wa? What's 'wa'?

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

Re: [gentoo-user] top - 99.9% wa? What's 'wa'?

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

Re: [gentoo-user] top - 99.9% wa? What's 'wa'?

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:59:55 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 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