On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Time for I/O is not generally "wasted" as you say. It is given to
> other tasks. Of course if there are no other tasks that want the
> CPU then, I guess, you could call it wasted.
I guess it may be useful to measure IO wait time in the
kernel, where IO wait time is defined as:
1) a CPU is idle
2) there are processes in D state
regards,
Rik
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