11-25-2010
An excerption of:
Man Page for top (Linux Section 1) - The UNIX and Linux Forums
Quote:
2c. CPU States
The CPU states are shown in the Summary Area. They are always
shown as a percentage and are for the time between now and the
last refresh.
us -- User CPU time
The time the CPU has spent running users' processes that are
not niced.
sy -- System CPU time
The time the CPU has spent running the kernel and its pro-
cesses.
ni -- Nice CPU time
The time the CPU has spent running users' proccess that have
been niced.
wa -- iowait
Amount of time the CPU has been waiting for I/O to complete.
hi -- Hardware IRQ
The amount of time the CPU has been servicing hardware inter-
rupts.
si -- Software Interrupts
The amount of time the CPU has been servicing software inter-
rupts.
st -- Steal Time
The amount of CPU 'stolen' from this virtual machine by the
hypervisor for other tasks (such as running another virtual
machine).
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