TOP: what does that mean?

[Paul Williams]

On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 08:21 +0700, Ali Milis wrote:
> 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?
> 
From the terminal, run "man top" to see the full manpage, and run "man
top | grep hi" or "man top | grep si" to see only things about hi and
si.
> -- 
> Raja Ali M.I. Ilias, Bengkalis, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AliMilis
> Counted GNU/Linux Engineer # 405138 - http://counter.li.org/
> 
Thanks,
Paul Williams (paul at smoothweb.net) | Jabber: pwill at jabber.org
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