I had to change the color to red manually, IOWait is too important.
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Color for IOWait hard to distinguish from Idle color
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** Changed in: gnome-applets
Importance: Unknown => Wishlist
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** Changed in: gnome-applets
Status: Unknown => New
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Color for IOWait hard to distinguish from Idle color
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I've sent the request upstream on
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486788
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I understand what IOWait is. And I get that it isn't busy, but waiting.
But while it is "busy waiting" (har har), those CPU cycles are lost, and
that percentage of the processor is utilized, making the machine slower.
What I'm saying, is that seeing your IOWait is useful. And that with the
current
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Color for IOWait hard to distinguish from Idle color
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Thanks for the suggestion.
But this may actually be on purpose. I/O Wait means that the processor
is not doing anything, because it is waiting for some I/O to finish.
The CPU *could* be doing work, but it isn't. So, from the processor's
viewpoint (which is what the applet is showing), it is idle
