Jika anda menjalankan perintah baris (CLI) top di linux, maka akan ditampilkan informasi sbb :
[root@webmail ~]# top
top - 14:10:49 up 5 days, 5:26, 2 users, load average: 0.23, 0.75, 1.59
Tasks: 551 total, 1 running, 550 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.8%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 16622144k total, 9794444k used, 6827700k free, 510748k buffers
Swap: 7274456k total, 0k used, 7274456k free, 6191976k cached
Khusus untuk :
Cpu(s): 0.8%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
artinya adalah sbb :
us: user cpu time (or) % CPU time spent in user space
sy: system cpu time (or) % CPU time spent in kernel space
ni: user nice cpu time (or) % CPU time spent on low priority processes
id: idle cpu time (or) % CPU time spent idle
wa: io wait cpu time (or) % CPU time spent in wait (on disk)
hi: hardware irq (or) % CPU time spent servicing/handling hardware interrupts
si: software irq (or) % CPU time spent servicing/handling software interrupts
st: steal time - - % CPU time in involuntary wait by virtual cpu while hypervisor is servicing another processor (or) % CPU time stolen from a virtual machine
