question about top

Wed Sep 22 15:54:26 UTC 2004

Hello everyone.

This is more a question than a problem; in my server it's usual to see
this when run the top command

CPU states:  cpu    user    nice  system    irq  softirq  iowait    idle

           total    7.6%    0.0%    7.2%   0.0%     0.0%  224.4%  159.6%

           cpu00    1.5%    0.0%    0.1%   0.0%     0.0%   19.4%   78.8%

           cpu01    1.5%    0.0%    2.1%   0.0%     0.1%   94.7%    1.3%

           cpu02    1.3%    0.0%    0.7%   0.0%     0.0%   19.9%   77.8%

           cpu03    3.1%    0.0%    4.3%   0.0%     0.1%   90.7%    1.5%

As you can see, about the half of the processing capacity is on IOWAIT,
being a recently windows to linux converted, I don't know what this
means, could anybody explain me?

Advance server 3.0 update 3 with 1 GB RAM and 2 Pentium Xeon 3 ghz, Raid
5.

Thanks in advance, 

David