Hi all... with little experience... I hope there's someone who can help me understand the output of "top" and sysstat commands

##############From "top"============================
top - 13:26:28 up 335 days, 14:34, 11 users, load average: 0.39, 0.21, 0.19
Tasks: 542 total, 1 running, 540 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 6.5% us, 0.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 91.1% id, 2.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.1% si
Mem: 6167252k total, 4693116k used, 1474136k free, 224472k buffers
Swap: 4610644k total, 3330072k used, 1280572k free, 1270740k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
28468 hobbit 16 0 18444 13m 2020 S 26.1 0.2 1598:05 devmon
2104 hobbit 16 0 13496 10m 752 S 0.3 0.2 69:43.87 hobbitd_rrd
1 root 16 0 2732 124 92 S 0.0 0.0 22:23.22 init
2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 12:04.07 migration/0
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:30.30 ksoftirqd/0
4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 9:15.11 migration/1
5 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:25.51 ksoftirqd/1
6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 11:44.80 migration/2
7 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:25.84 ksoftirqd/2
8 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 7:37.65 migration/3
9 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:20.89 ksoftirqd/3
10 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:07.13 events/0
##############From "mpstat"============================
[kpham@adm0001 ~]$ mpstat -P ALL
Linux 2.6.9-11.ELsmp (adm0001.useqxsjl.demandtec.com) 09/12/2008

01:28:04 PM CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %irq %soft %idle intr/s
01:28:04 PM all 9.19 0.00 2.19 2.64 0.01 0.29 85.67 889.26
01:28:04 PM 0 7.77 0.00 2.28 2.76 0.01 0.28 86.90 222.31
01:28:04 PM 1 10.14 0.00 2.35 2.58 0.01 0.30 84.63 222.31
01:28:04 PM 2 8.41 0.00 2.04 2.70 0.02 0.28 86.55 222.31
01:28:04 PM 3 10.45 0.00 2.09 2.54 0.01 0.30 84.61 222.31
##############From "iostat"============================
[dtadmin@app1001 ~]$ iostat -p ALL -t
Linux 2.6.9-34.ELsmp (app1001) 09/12/2008

Time: 01:30:05 PM
avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle
3.18 0.00 0.81 0.77 95.24

Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn
ram0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
ram1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
ram2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
ram3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
ram4 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
ram5 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
ram6 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
ram7 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
ram8 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
ram9 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
ram10 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
ram11 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
ram12 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
ram13 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
ram14 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
ram15 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
hda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
cciss/c0d0 3.47 3.96 81.96 131546808 2722580968
cciss/c0d0p1 0.00 0.03 0.00 945138 2672
cciss/c0d0p2 0.04 0.13 0.18 4345776 5931424
cciss/c0d0p3 2.59 0.40 20.64 13192858 685714152
cciss/c0d0p4 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
cciss/c0d0p5 1.00 2.01 7.81 66724642 259305232
cciss/c0d0p6 0.00 0.00 0.02 44298 759736
cciss/c0d0p7 0.93 1.26 7.20 42000634 239265120
cciss/c0d0p8 5.59 0.13 44.72 4242394 1485349712
cciss/c0d0p9 0.70 0.00 1.39 20932 46246584
cciss/c0d0p10 0.00 0.00 0.00 17624 6120
fd0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
md0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
##############From "vmstat"============================
[kpham@dbm0601 ~]$ vmstat -afmn
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free inact active si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
0 0 8960592 17980 1693084 6056700 16 39 3962 636 0 1 15 6 63 16

Thanks all!!!

Although I made the font monospace, tabs dont line up... but still hope you guys can explain the meaning of each heading of the output... Thanks!

How would that be better than what you get when you use man for each of those programs?

Your question is too general. Try man first. I expect you will understand most of the column descriptions it gives you.

If you ask about the specific headings that confuse you, with some detail about what aspect of the description in man you don't get, MAYBE some expert will explain. For most of those programs there is at least one heading that confuses me. So I'll be interested in reading those expert answers, if you get any.

But as it is, you've really just asked for someone to type in the man pages for those programs.

Use code tags, then text should be well aligned.