[ale] Identify process causing high %wait

[timothy at meanor.net (timothy at meanor.net)]

That's your CPU waiting on I/O to complete.  Do this:
iostat -x 1 

This will show how much is being written to your disk(s) every second.  


-Tim

>>Hi,
>>I have a fairly powerful box but sometimes the load gets up to 4 & 5
>>and looking at top I see 65% idle 30%wait
>>How do I identify the process that is causing the hight %wait.
>>
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