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> i guess you have DMA enabled on /dev/hdb. I would expect, that the > system is at least 50% idle i did dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=1M and noticed, that top shows 0% idle, but 95% wa - what ever that means. Since i've got DMA turned on, i would expect the CPU to be 95% idle, instead 95% wa? what does "wa" stand for? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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