First of all, thank you very much for your answer.
El Jueves, 29 de Junio de 2006 10:20, Dietz Proepper escribió:
> Raúl Sánchez Siles:
>
> > In this situation, I have tried doing top on a konsole, and I find
> > that the field "wa" in the above part of the top report, in the middle
> > of "id" and "hi" raises to 80-90%. I don't know what exactly this field
> > means, but I bet for cpu-wait state as it is the case in disk I/O.
>
> It's the amount of time, your systems spends waiting for i/o requests to
> finish, and its quite normal to have 90%+ i/o wait while you're doing disk
> i/o. In an ideal world, the disk operation should not influence the rest
> of the system too much (apart from slowing down other disk i/o.)
>
I currently use the deadline scheduler, do you think using another schedule
would improve things¿?
> > All of this guessing yields me to the conclusion that I'm sometimes
> > wasting up to 90% of cpu time waiting or just doing nothing, I can't
>
> If you're not typing very, very fast (or run some seti stuff in the
> background all the time), your system spends nearly 100% of it's time
> doing nothing ;-).
The thing here is that I don't mind "idle-ing" the CPU when I don't need it,
but bloating it waiting when I do need it. ;)
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