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Combined with the options listed above, you should be able to produce a report that you can use to diagnose slowing during a given period. The %user and %system columns simply specify the amount of time the CPU spends in user and system mode. The %iowait and %idle columns are of interest to us when doing performance analysis. The %iowait column specifies the amount of time the CPU spends waiting for I/O requests to complete. The %idle column tells us how much useful work the CPU is doing. A %idle time near zero indicates a CPU bottleneck, while a high %iowait value indicates unsatisfactory disk performance. | Combined with the options listed above, you should be able to produce a report that you can use to diagnose slowing during a given period. The %user and %system columns simply specify the amount of time the CPU spends in user and system mode. The %iowait and %idle columns are of interest to us when doing performance analysis. The %iowait column specifies the amount of time the CPU spends waiting for I/O requests to complete. The %idle column tells us how much useful work the CPU is doing. A %idle time near zero indicates a CPU bottleneck, while a high %iowait value indicates unsatisfactory disk performance. |