Have taken advise from the LKML and the IOWait figures are considered normal -- they indicate the time the CPU spends idle waiting for IO. Other processes can make use of these idle cycles, so although the CPU appears pegged at 100% it does in fact still have available cycles.
-- 100% CPU usage during disk I/O with SATA/PATA https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192353 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
