On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 04:13:30PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I've been using Solaris a lot lately, and I've noticed that in e.g.
> > top's output, it has a distinct CPU state called "iowait", which seems
> > to be a pretty good indicator of how I/O-bound a system is. Is there
> > any reason that FreeBSD doesn't have such a state?
>
> It has several, depending on the type of I/O the process is waiting
> for: biord (waiting for a read operation to complete), biowr (waiting
> for a write operation to complete), select (waiting for descriptors to
> become readable / writable), etc.
Is there any reason top couldn't add these up and report a %iowait
like Solaris'?
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Ben
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