> On 11/28/05, Henrik Morsing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> > On the CPU row of top, there's various stuff displayed: >> > 'us' (which I assume is CPU cycles consumed by processes owned by the >> > user running top), 'sy' (which I assume is those owned by root), 'id' >> > (which I assume means idle), and there is 'wa', 'hi', 'si' whose >> > meaning I don't know. >> > I checked on the manpage without success... Could anyone tell me what >> > these last 3 (wa, hi, si) mean. >> >> us is 'user' meaning any process regardless of owner running in user >> space. User space is unpriviledged processes without hardware access >> like >> the kernel. >> >> sy is system. Regardless of user it's CPU cycles used by threads inside >> the kernel e.g. working for processes asking for hardware access. >> >> id is idle >> >> wa is wait which is CPU cycles wasted on waiting for hardware especially >> disk, access. >> >> hi I've never seen >> >> si must be swap in? Meaning pages swapped in from swap space. > > That's a handful. Thanks... (although we do have 'soft interrupt' and > 'hi interrupt' as Michael later mentioned). >
hopefully i said 'hard interruprt' for hi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
