Thread: N9 technical specifications appeared rumoured
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shadowjk is offline shadowjk
2010-10-07 , 10:22
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#148
Originally Posted by jcompagner View Post
this is not true, conky or other process managers are showing the cpu usage when i notice it is very busy. So for me it is really the cpu where i wait for.

Just use FeedingIt rss feeder, let it sync all the feeds. And then start doing something else. It is just crunching the cpu.

The WA value is "Cpu is idle because it's waiting on IO to deliver data or code to execute". So it should be treated as idle for this purpose.

Of course, if one process is executing something small at 100%, you wont notice the WA value going up. In that case, something like top running over ssh with 1s refresh to your pc's display and checking that display for processes with "D" in their status column finds all the processes stuck waiting on IO..