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Re: Quick question about top...
- From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
- To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
- Subject: Re: Quick question about top...
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 23:18:24 +0200
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. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/
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