Hi, I'm looking at this mythbackend server machine using top. Sometimes the CPU usage goes to essentially 100%, but only in the 'wa' section. What is 'wa'? I searched through the man page but didn't see anything about this.
I'm suspecting that this machine has stopped being able to keep up with MythTV due to something using up CPU time. I found that one of my wife's screensavers (Fireworks) was using 70-90% CPU so I've turned that off and things seem much better. Now when watching top I never see anything using more than a few %, but this 'wa' thing persists. top - 14:51:47 up 4:19, 3 users, load average: 1.75, 1.88, 1.58 Tasks: 91 total, 2 running, 88 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 0.3% us, 0.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 97.7% wa, 0.0% hi, 1.7% si Mem: 499052k total, 493560k used, 5492k free, 3140k buffers Swap: 1052216k total, 368k used, 1051848k free, 342352k cached Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
