2.6 iowait

[Aggelos Economopoulos]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 19:06:34 +0200
V13 <v13 at priest.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 02 March 2004 16:27, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote:
> > iowait state. Profanws, an etrexe kati, o xronos autos den mporei na
> > apodo8ei se iowait (asxeta an kapoio process se auton ton cpu
> > perimene
> > gia i/o), kai h scheduler_tick() proxwraei sto update twn gnwstwn
> > user/nice/system statistics.
> 
> Pragmati... [...]

OK, twra pou brhkame ti sumbainei, poios 8a steilei to patch me thn
protash tou Basilh ston Andrew Morton? 8)

--- linux-2.6.3-old/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ linux-2.6.3/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -732,7 +732,7 @@
 - nice: niced processes executing in user mode
 - system: processes executing in kernel mode
 - idle: twiddling thumbs
-- iowait: waiting for I/O to complete
+- iowait: not running anything, but not playing with myself either
 - irq: servicing interrupts
 - softirq: servicing softirqs