Re: [RFC][PATCH] iowait statistics

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Wed, 15 May 2002 15:33:58 -0300 (BRT)

On Wed, 15 May 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 10:00:25AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> > Wed May 15 09:58:22 PDT 2002
> > cpu 98583 0 8082 204779 9328
> >
> > It looks very constant, not sure if it should be otherwise.
>
> Not quite constant, just slowly varying:
>
> Wed May 15 11:30:47 PDT 2002
> cpu 2095183 0 158967 263950 20705

Well, with the amount of memory you have in the machine
I expect the time spent in idle and iowait to be fairly
limited during a repetitive kernel compile ;)

If everything "looks" normal in top and vmstat things
should be ok.

regards,

Rik

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