TOP: what does that mean?

[Ali Milis]

Eric Lemoine wrote:

>>> 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

>> 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.

Thank You! May I know to *WHICH* top manpage you are referring?

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