Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:39:46 -0500 From: Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca> To: Mipam <mipam@ibb.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system in cpu states in top Message-ID: <41A32182.6050501@gldis.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.56.0411231032530.17522@ux11.ltcm.net> References: <Pine.BSO.4.56.0411231032530.17522@ux11.ltcm.net>
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Mipam wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder how some variables are being determined in top. > For example CPU states: > > CPU states: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 1.5% system, 0.4% interrupt, 97.7% idle > > is the percentage of system the usage that system processes use from > the cpu? What about nice? Any nice link where i can rtfm about it? > Bye, > > Mipam. > user - user programs nice - user programs that are running at a nice level (man nice) system - kernel interrupt - handling hardware interrupts -- Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca> Resume: http://www.gldis.ca/gldisater/resume.html
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