What is I/O wait?
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To understand I/O wait, one must first understand about process states. At any given moment, a process is in one of several states. This state is indicated by the STAT column in ps or top. From the ps(1) man page:
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D- Uninterruptible sleep (usually IO) -
R- Running or runnable (on ru...
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