TOP Command Details
 

Hi,

Pls give me details of TOP Command what these us, sy,ni ,id,wa,hi,and Si Stands for....
and whts the ideal percentage of these.....
Cpu(s): 0.6% us, 0.1% sy, 0.0% ni, 74.4% id, 24.9% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si


Thanks

man top

read that, and come back if you didn't understand a
specific part ....


Cheers,
Tink

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Definitions
 

us: user cpu time
sy: system cpu time
ni: user nice cpu time
id: idle cpu time
wa: io wait cpu time
hi: hardware irq (servicing hardware interrupts)
si: software irq (servicing software interrupts)
st: steal time (time in involuntary wait by virtual cpu while hypervisor is servicing another processor)

man vmstat
man mpstat

Helped a lot....
Thanks a loooot...

Thanks a lot.!!!

Interestingly this information is (stil) missing from the man pages (at least on my distro) so I'm wondering what alternate source you used.