Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761068AbXEZPYO (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2007 11:24:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754050AbXEZPYD (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2007 11:24:03 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]:56372 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751716AbXEZPYB (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2007 11:24:01 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=WcRJJ/4GegplRHobJg9GAvgY0DX0oJDLA2n4KiPAN9nQbnM4aVd6369mjuARvjlugTuoUAq9+PevR8BzYqaL8QMLDlrRl0j0VKK7GAIInKQkY+LaMsYKHJ67EWH0sdB6VF5lglEv5GlbIwGi4sgAhoxitOriGTXWubmugZnwTIg= Message-ID: <3d8471ca0705260823j2d6b312fkd72fe8d3f5b9673f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 17:23:59 +0200 From: "Guillaume Chazarain" To: "Tommy Vercetti" Subject: Re: 2.6.21.1 - 97% wait time on IDE operations Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200705261505.38109@gj-laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200705261505.38109@gj-laptop> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 6f60c45a002a82d4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 675 Lines: 20 Hi, > wait time is 90+% , which means that machine is waiting, rather than doing > something meanwhile. (I guess). Yes, the machine spends its time waiting for the disk to do its things as it does not have anything else to do. Nothing to worry about. If you want, launch some CPU bound process at the same time and the wait time will be replaced by some user+system time but you'll gain nothing. Hope this helps. -- Guillaume - 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/