On 7/5/05, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cpu0 : 1.3% us, 1.9% sy, 96.0% ni, 0.8% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si > > I'm running a bunch of compute-bound tasks, so I suppose the 'ni' fields > indicate heavy use, but what exactly does 'ni' mean? And what do the other > fields mean -- if the 'us' field means 'user' then I'm really baffled. > > The man page is most helpful in deciphering the task displays, but I was > unable to find a part about the header fields. > -- > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
The full names for the first three are user, system, and nice. It appears that the tasks your are running are being run 'niced', see man nice. The priority is set to lower (or possibly higher, i'm not sure...) than regular tasks in the system, and the cpu usage shows up under nice instead of user. -- Calvin Walton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
