[lug] top 'wa' ?

[Zan Lynx]

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.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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