"Mark Haney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:52:23 -0500:
> I've googled and read the man page on TOP, but I cannot find what this > particular indicator is for. When I run top I have this line: > > Cpu(s): 18.0% us, 7.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 74.7% wa, 0.0% hi, > 0.0% si > > What I can't find is what the 'wa' percentage is for. Does anyone one > know? As Homer mentions, that's i/o-wait, the time the CPU is stuck waiting for the slow hard drive to send it data, with nothing to do until it gets it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
