What do top %cpu abbreviations mean?

In “top” what are us, sy, ni, id, wa, hi, si and st (for CPU usage)?

  • 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

Source: In Linux “top” command what are us, sy, ni, id, wa, hi, si and st (for CPU usage)?

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