top says IOWAIT is high, how to I find the culprit processes
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I know I should not do it but I run some Ubuntu system from an USB flash drive, in persistent mode, and it is painfully slow. "top" tells me it is not because of CPU, it is because of IO, ie high %wa. I have already remove the swap, but to optimize further I need to get some clue about what are the…
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Many USB "pen" drives are very slow, particularly for writing, so there might be very little you can do other than to try a faster drive. To answer your direct question: You can get some picture of what is going on disk wise with - if left running d…
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