Re: who/what uses my CPU?

From: hendrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:52:24 -0500

On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:42:51AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:

From man top:

wa -- iowait
Amount of time the CPU has been waiting for I/O to complete.

In other words, the CPU is idling, waiting for something to do.

-- hendrik

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