Thanks a lot! One more question, what is the difference from HI and SI? Where I could find a updated man page or documents for this? I check the help/man page/info associated with this top, but no luck. Ming On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 21:57 -0400, William J Beksi wrote: > 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 > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/