top during dd:
top - 09:28:51 up 6 days, 15:28, 1 user, load average: 0.23, 0.63, 0.81
Tasks: 205 total, 2 running, 203 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.2%us, 12.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 87.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 8101208k total, 5900796k used, 2200412k free...