[ale] usb drives suck

[Geoffrey]

Ed Cashin wrote:
> The iowait bucket is a subset of the old "idle" bucket.  It just
> means the CPU doesn't have much to do and you're doing I/O.
> 
> Specifically, when the last thing that happened before the CPU
> went idle was to kick off some I/O, the tick gets counted in the
> iowait bucket.
> 
> So there should be plenty of CPU for other processes while
> the system waits for the I/O to finish.  I don't know why the
> load average (running average count of processes that would
> like to run but have to wait) would go up unless there were lots
> of processes that couldn't run until the I/O finished.

I don't get that either.  Right now, load average is 7.5, 6.49, 4.6
I'm running an rsync of /home to an external usb drive.

I guarantee you, once it finishes, load average will drop below 1.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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