[rhn-users] Top Command Header Explanation

[Vlad]

Hello Jesse,

  The 1, 5, and 15 minute loads are 0.58, 0.45, and 0.40 respectively.
  What loads (CPU,MEM,I/O) ???


Friday, November 4, 2005, 7:11:15 PM, you wrote:

JB> On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 01:23:26PM -0500, Jacobs, Brendan D. wrote:
>> Can someone point me to the right documentation site for the 'top'
>> command procps version 3.2.3?  I found the UNIX top site, but that isn't
>> the same one that RHEL4 uses.  Specifically, I want to find a detailed
>> description about the 'top' header: 


JB> Did the man page not help?  I've found it to be pretty complete.

>> top - 13:15:24 up 15 days,  4:16, 12 users,  load average: 0.58, 0.45, 0.40

JB> This is pretty simple:
JB> 	The current time is 13:15:24
JB> 	The box has been online 15 days, 4 hours, 16 minutes.
JB> 	The 1, 5, and 15 minute loads are 0.58, 0.45, and 0.40 respectively.

>> Tasks: 168 total,   2 running, 166 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie

JB> There are 168 total processes.  Of those
JB> 	2 are actively doing something
JB> 	The rest are idle (sleeping)

>> Cpu(s):  8.2% us,  1.8% sy,  0.0% ni, 90.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi, 0.0% si

JB> The CPU was 90% idle over the last update period.  About 8% was devoted to
JB> user processes (probably the two mentioned before), and about 2% was devoted
JB> to kernel time.  

>> Mem:   3113852k total,  3080544k used,    33308k free,   410868k buffers
>> Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,  1805372k cached

JB> You have 3GB of RAM and it is almost all used, either by processes, or disk
JB> buffers and file cache.  There's about 32MB of free memory.  You do not have
JB> any swap space configured.





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 Vlad                            mailto:vlad at nkmz.donetsk.ua