Description: top CPU state descriptions
Author: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/312157
Index: b/top.1
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--- a/top.1	2009-11-24 21:00:38.000000000 +1100
+++ b/top.1	2009-11-24 21:00:40.000000000 +1100
@@ -537,6 +537,42 @@
 upper case\fR letter and to the\fB right\fR with the\fB lower case\fR
 letter.
 
+.\" ......................................................................
+.SS 2c. CPU States
+.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+The CPU states are shown in the Summary Area. They are always shown as a
+percentage and are for the time between now and the last refresh.
+
+.TP 3
+\fB us\fR \*(EM User CPU time
+The time the CPU has spent running users' processes that are not
+niced.
+
+.TP 3
+\fB sy\fR \*(EM System CPU time
+The time the CPU has spent running the kernel and its processes.
+
+.TP 3
+\fB ni\fR \*(EM Nice CPU time
+The time the CPU has spent running users' proccess that have been
+niced.
+
+.TP 3
+\fB wa\fR \*(EM iowait
+Amount of time the CPU has been waiting for I/O to complete.
+
+.TP 3
+\fB hi\fR \*(EM Hardware IRQ
+The amount of time the CPU has been servicing hardware interrupts.
+
+.TP 3
+\fB si\fR \*(EM Software Interrupts
+The amount of time the CPU has been servicing software interrupts.
+
+.TP 3
+\fB st\fR \*(EM Steal Time
+The amount of CPU 'stolen' from this virtual machine by the hypervisor
+for other tasks (such as running another virtual machine).
 
 .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 .SH 3. INTERACTIVE Commands
