[clug] dstat

Bryan Kilgallin kilgallin at iinet.net.au
Sat Dec 29 08:24:27 UTC 2018


I have been reading this article.
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3291616/linux/examining-linux-system-performance-with-dstat.html

And so I just tried this command.
{
dstat -c
}
Resulting starting as follows.
{
--total-cpu-usage--
usr sys idl wai stl
  15   3  81   1   0
   3   1  96   0   0
   2   1  97   0   0
   2   0  98   0   0
   6   2  92   0   0
   2   1  97   0   0
   4   0  96   1   0
}

I gather that these subheadings mean percentage of time spent on user 
and system tasks or idling. But what then are "wai" and "stl"? And I see 
that the last line quoted above totals 101%!
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