Re: who/what uses my CPU?

[Andrew Perrin <clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu>]

> From man top:

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


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On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Mitja Podreka wrote:

> Hello
>
> I've searched the internet but I couldn't find the answer.
> KDE's system guard shows that something is using almost 100% of CPU, but it 
> doesn't want to tell me who.
> If I run top I get this:
>
> top - 16:13:13 up  4:13,  1 user,  load average: 1.27, 1.57, 1.63
> Tasks: 109 total,   1 running, 108 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s):  4.0% us,  0.7% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id, 95.3% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
> Mem:    516416k total,   504260k used,    12156k free,    38204k buffers
> Swap:   522072k total,      752k used,   521320k free,   148256k cached
>
> PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 3301 root      15   0 50676  30m  22m S  3.7  6.0   1:50.58 XFree86
> 4039 mitja     16   0 30520  16m  27m S  0.3  3.3   0:01.21 korgac
> 5081 mitja     15   0 28480  15m  24m S  0.3  3.1   0:01.51 kdeinit
>   1 root      16   0  1504  512 1352 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.61 init
>
> Can someone tell me what /95.3% wa/ in Cpu(s) line means?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Mitja
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