What do top %cpu abbreviations mean?
In "top" what are us, sy, ni, id, wa, hi, si and st (for CPU usage)?
us- user cpu time (or) % CPU time spent in user spacesy- system cpu time (or) % CPU time spent in kernel spaceni- user nice cpu time (or) % CPU time spent on low priority processesid- idle cpu time (or) % CPU time spent idlewa- io wait cpu time (or) % CPU time spent in wait (on disk)hi- hardware irq (or) % CPU time spent servicing/handling hardware interruptssi- software irq (or) % CPU time spent servicing/handling software interruptsst- steal time % CPU time in involuntary wait by virtual cpu while hypervisor is servicing another processor (or) % CPU time stolen from a virtual machine
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