TOP: what does that mean?

[Eric Lemoine]

On 10/18/06, Paul Williams <paul at smoothweb.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 11:45 +0700, Ali Milis wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > May I know what "hi" and "si" means in CpuX:
> > Cpu0: 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
> > Cpu1: 2.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni,  98.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
> >
> > thank you,
> >
> hi is hardware IRQ, and si is software interrupt, I believe.

Correct.

The top manpage says it:

        hi  --  Hardware IRQ
          The amount of time the CPU has been servicing hardware interrupts.

        si  --  Software Interrupts
          The amount of time the CPU has been servicing software interrupts.


-- 
Eric