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If "top" indicates CPU is spending 10% on %wa (iowait), does that mean the CPU is idle?

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I am referring to the Linux command. If it indicates 10.4% was spent on , does that mean 10.4% CPU was available for other processes?

Error Output

top - 09:40:45 up 178 days, 34 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.32, 0.43, 0.42
Tasks: 173 total,   1 running, 172 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu…

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Fix for: If "top" indicates CPU is spending 10% on %wa (iowait), does that mean the CPU is idle?

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wa is the time the CPU is waiting for I/O to complete. 87.2%id is the amount of CPU spends in idle, and therefore would be available for other processes.

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