Re: UNS: who/what uses my CPU?

[Steffan Davies <steff@mindcandydesign.com>]

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:

[snip top output]

> Can someone tell me what /95.3% wa/ in Cpu(s) line means?

From "man top":

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

Something is doing lots of IO (probably disk IO). Have a look at the 
output of iostat (part of the sysstat package) to find out a little more 
about what sort of activity is going on.

S
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