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:
-
D
- Uninterruptible sleep (usually IO) -
R
- Running or runnable (on ru...
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