[Gllug] Getting to the bottom of top

[Dylan]

On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Andrew Roberts wrote:
> On 28/03/07, Dylan <dylan at dylan.me.uk> wrote:
> > top - 12:43:15 up  3:43,  5 users,  load average: 2.41, 2.60, 2.38
> > Tasks: 106 total,   1 running, 103 sleeping,   0 stopped,   2 zombie
> > Cpu(s):  1.7% us,  1.7% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id, 96.0% wa,  0.7% hi,  0.0%
> > si Mem:    964332k total,   480992k used,   483340k free,     7648k
> > buffers Swap:  2104504k total,      112k used,  2104392k free,   195696k
> > cached
> >
> > The majority of that is self explanatory, except: what's the difference
> > between the load average values? And the first 2 values for cpu are user
> > and system load, but what are the others? Especially the wa figure?
>
> ni = nice
> id = idle
> wa = IO wait
> hi = interrupts
> si = soft interrupts

thank you muchly - I'm running badblocks on a usb drive so that'll explain the 
high IO waiting then.

Dylan

>
> Regards,
> Andrew.


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