Ming Zhang wrote:
Hi folks
Any idea on these new fields in top?
top - 18:57:47 up 2:54, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.51, 0.58
Tasks: 80 total, 1 running, 79 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.2% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.8% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi,
0.0% si, 0.0% st
Mem: 2059756k total, 57404k used, 2002352k free, 436k buffers
Swap: 2096472k total, 1027860k used, 1068612k free, 9784k cached
"Cpu(s): 0.2% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.8% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi,
0.0% si, 0.0% st"
What is hi, si, and st?
hi: hardware interrupt handlers
si: software interrupt handlers
st: steal time (This is a new field related to virtualization, stealing
the cpu from Linux to run some other os.)
William
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