Re: [gentoo-user] Help interpreting top(1) display

2005-07-06 Thread Alexander Kirillov 
top reads some tick counters from /proc/stat
provided by the kernel and defined as

struct cpu_usage_stat {
cputime64_t user;
cputime64_t nice;
cputime64_t system;
cputime64_t softirq;
cputime64_t irq;
cputime64_t idle;
cputime64_t iowait;
cputime64_t steal;
};

in kernel_stat.h

You probably can guess the meaning better than I could:

# time spent waiting for IO to complete
wa=iowait

# time spent within hardware interrupt handlers
hi=irq

# time spent within other critical sections within the kernel
si=softirq

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Re: [gentoo-user] Help interpreting top(1) display

2005-07-06 Thread Adrian Chelar 
no problem

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 Okay, thanks.  They are indeed niced, because there are a lot of them, and
 I would like my keystrokes echoed sometime today

 OTOH, where can I read about the others?

 ++ kevin

 On 7/5/05, Calvin Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On 7/5/05, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   Cpu0  :  1.3% us,  1.9% sy, 96.0% ni,  0.8% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,
0.0% si
  
   I'm running a bunch of compute-bound tasks, so I suppose the 'ni'
fields
   indicate heavy use, but what exactly does 'ni' mean?  And what do the
other
   fields mean -- if the 'us' field means 'user' then I'm really baffled.
  
   The man page is most helpful in deciphering the task displays, but I
was
   unable to find a part about the header fields.
   --
   Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
 
  The full names for the first three are user, system, and nice. It
  appears that the tasks your are running are being run 'niced', see man
  nice. The priority is set to lower (or possibly higher, i'm not
  sure...) than regular tasks in the system, and the cpu usage shows up
  under nice instead of user.
 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Help interpreting top(1) display

2005-07-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman 
Okay, thanks.  They are indeed niced, because there are a lot of them, and
I would like my keystrokes echoed sometime today

OTOH, where can I read about the others?

++ kevin

On 7/5/05, Calvin Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 7/5/05, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Cpu0  :  1.3% us,  1.9% sy, 96.0% ni,  0.8% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
 
  I'm running a bunch of compute-bound tasks, so I suppose the 'ni' fields
  indicate heavy use, but what exactly does 'ni' mean?  And what do the other
  fields mean -- if the 'us' field means 'user' then I'm really baffled.
 
  The man page is most helpful in deciphering the task displays, but I was
  unable to find a part about the header fields.
  --
  Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
 
 The full names for the first three are user, system, and nice. It
 appears that the tasks your are running are being run 'niced', see man
 nice. The priority is set to lower (or possibly higher, i'm not
 sure...) than regular tasks in the system, and the cpu usage shows up
 under nice instead of user.
 
 --
 Calvin Walton
 
-- 
Go back to the top: I almost always top-post
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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