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SubjectRe: Why is deleting (or reading) files not counted as IO-Wait in top?
On 03.01.2008 02:16, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 January 2008 21:35:03 Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> >
> > Currently i'm deleting about 500.000 files on a XFS-filesystem which
> > takes a few minutes, as i had a top open i saw that 'wa' is shown as
> > 0.0% (Nothing else running currently) and everything except 'id' is near
> > the bottom too. Kernel is 2.6.23.11.
> >
> > So, as 'rm -rf' is essentially a IO (or seek, to be more correct)-bound
> > task, shouldn't that count as "Waiting for IO"?
> >
> > The man-page of top says:
> > 'Amount of time the CPU has been waiting for I/O to complete.'
> >
> > But AFAICT wa only seams to be (ac)counted for writing and not for
> > reading. I come to that conclusion because, when i fire 'sync' i can see
> > some percent wa for a few seconds.
>
> The IOWAIT time is the IDLE time that was spent waiting
> for I/O. (meaning that there were no tasks running, but some were waiting on I/O)
>
> Thus if you have another task that is not I/O bound, it can run in that time,
> and ideally, you shouldn't notice any I/O slowdown, but the iowait time will decrease.
>
> It wasn't the case before CFS introduction. I did few tests that showed almost 50% slowdown
> when running another task in that iowait time.
> It is not longer a problem with CFS.

I can understand that, but in my case nothing else was running, so i
would expect about 46%-50% wa (Dual Core Processor).




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