id field of top command?

Dave Burns tburns at hawaii.edu
Sun Jun 1 21:06:22 UTC 2008


I've got a server that is running slow (slow to log in, commands on
command line take way longer than usual). But the top command doesn't
say much (that I understand). The one interesting item is a 99.7%
value in the 'id' field at the top of the output. Reading man page and
googling has left me no wiser, unless it means 'idle'. Anyone know
what it stands for?

Nothing in the log to indicate being busy or having problems that
would slow it down.
mahalo,
Dave

My output:
top - 10:48:10 up 20:30,  2 users,  load average: 0.01, 0.04, 0.01
Tasks:  98 total,   2 running,  96 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.0% us,  0.3% sy,  0.0% ni, 99.7% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:  16509316k total, 15993912k used,   515404k free,   107280k buffers
Swap: 16779884k total,        0k used, 16779884k free, 15192476k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
    1 root      16   0  4876  588  496 S  0.0  0.0   0:02.09 init
    2 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
    3 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0
    4 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 events/0
    5 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
    6 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthread
   10 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.03 kblockd/0
   11 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
  300 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khubd
  304 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kseriod
  368 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.97 pdflush
  369 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:04.72 pdflush
  370 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.38 kswapd0
  371 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0
  517 root      11  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kpsmoused
  534 root      11  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
  555 root      11  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_1




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