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Lost CPU

This section reports occurrences of the CPU's inability to execute because of some memory limitation.

Page Wait

Percentage of time that the CPU was idle and at least one disk device had paging I/O in progress. In a multiprocessor system, all CPUs must be idle.

Swap Wait

Percentage of time that the CPU was idle and at least one disk device had swapping I/O in progress. This includes both swapping and modified page writing. In a multiprocessor system, both CPUs must be idle.

Page or Swp Wait

Percentage of time that the CPU was idle and at least one disk device had either page I/O or swap I/O in progress. In a multiprocessor system, both CPUs must be idle. Page and swap data is based on statistics Performance collects at 100-millisecond intervals from I/Os waiting to be processed.