On 11/30/05, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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
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