Re: who/what uses my CPU?

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Subject: Re: who/what uses my CPU?
From: hendrik@topoi.pooq.com
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:52:24 -0500
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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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