Generally, processes in IOWait are not running, they are sitting around in a queue waiting for their data. Anyone waiting on the process is feeling pain, but i

Generally, processes in IOWait are not running, they are sitting around in a queue waiting for their data. Anyone waiting on the process is feeling pain, but it isn't eating any CPU so it comes down to what you want the metric to mean. Should it reflect user discomfort or consumption of cpu cycles.