[lug] top 'wa' ?

[Jason Davis]

On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 10:39, Zan Lynx wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 10:31 -0700, Jason Davis wrote:
> > Hello,
> >  I have looked over the man page for top and cant find what 'wa'
> > 
> >  Cpu0 : 15.5% us,  5.3% sy,  0.0% ni, 20.5% id, 57.4% wa,  0.7% hi, 
> > 0.7% si
> > 
> > 
> > what does wa meam?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > jd
> 
> "wa" is IO Wait.  It is the percent of time that the system is spending
> waiting on IO.  It is new in 2.6, which is why it probably isn't in the
> man page.

thanks again Zan :)
jd