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@@ -1305,7 +1305,16 @@ second). The meanings of the columns are as follows, from left to right:
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- nice: niced processes executing in user mode
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- system: processes executing in kernel mode
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- idle: twiddling thumbs
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-- iowait: waiting for I/O to complete
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+- iowait: In a word, iowait stands for waiting for I/O to complete. But there
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+ are several problems:
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+ 1. Cpu will not wait for I/O to complete, iowait is the time that a task is
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+ waiting for I/O to complete. When cpu goes into idle state for
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+ outstanding task io, another task will be scheduled on this CPU.
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+ 2. In a multi-core CPU, the task waiting for I/O to complete is not running
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+ on any CPU, so the iowait of each CPU is difficult to calculate.
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+ 3. The value of iowait field in /proc/stat will decrease in certain
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+ conditions.
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+ So, the iowait is not reliable by reading from /proc/stat.
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- irq: servicing interrupts
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- softirq: servicing softirqs
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- steal: involuntary wait
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