Happy 2009 All, Can any gurus explain the output of the "top" command? I'm trying to debug my server which has quite a high server load. I've managed to log an hour of "top" output to a txt file and need to understand exactly what it's telling me. Specifically what are the us/sy/ni/id/wa/hi/si/st flags here? Cpu(s): 19.2%us, 19.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 61.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Thanks, kma
Top displays what users, and system processes are using resources. The list of the processes along with the information is pretty obvious - CPU/MEM etc. Try installing htop, provides a lot more info and better. google - top linux