From: Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Quick question about top...
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 23:18:24 +0200
Message-ID: <20060621211824.GA5782@uio.no> (raw)
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On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 04:46:15PM -0400, Alex Turner wrote:
> I have a really stupid question about top, what exactly is iowait CPU time?
Time while the CPU is idle, but at least one I/O request is outstanding.
In other words, if you're at 100% I/O-wait, you're heavily I/O-bound and your
processor is bored to death.
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