On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 08:13:09AM -0800, Luke Lonergan wrote: > Iowait is time spent waiting on blocking io calls.
To be picky, iowait is time spent in the idle task while the I/O queue is not empty. It does not matter if the I/O is blocking or not (from userspace's point of view), and if the I/O was blocking (say, PIO) from the kernel's point of view, it would be counted in system. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
