When you run the "top"
command in SSH , you get the results as following :
top
- 19:46:04 up 18 days, 4 min, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.24,
0.27
Tasks:
138 total, 1 running, 137 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s):
5.1%us, 2.4%sy, 0.2%ni, 89.5%id, 2.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
0.0%st
Mem:
3887124k total, 3420008k used, 467116k free, 419972k buffers
Swap:
8392696k total, 269884k used, 8122812k free, 1395624k cached
PID
USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1
**** 20 0 19356 1052 836 S 0.0 0.0
0:06.04 init
2
**** 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0
0:00.00 kthreadd
3
**** RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0
0:10.97 migration/0
4
**** 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0
0:50.46 ksoftirqd/0
In this cpu(s) line can be read
as following :
{ Cpu(s): 5.1%us, 2.4%sy,
0.2%ni, 89.5%id, 2.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st }
us = user mode
sy = system mode
ni = low priority user mode
(nice)
id = idle task
wa = I/O waiting
hi = servicing IRQs
si = servicing soft IRQs
st = steal (time given to other
DomU instances)