2008/4/30 Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How do I find out? top has showed the CPU "waiting" for 90-95% of the time, > for the last 10 minutes or so. I brutally killed off trackerd, but this had > no visible effect. > > As I type this email, whatever it was has finished, but I'd like to know > whether there's a way of finding out next time.
In the S (process status) column of top look for D (uninterruptable sleep) -- in my experience this usually indicates waiting for (disk) IO.
