Missing documentation for %id field in top's man page and info
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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procps (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: procps
top has this useful line at the beginning at the page:
Cpu(s): 26.2%us, 4.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 60.3%id, 5.6%wa, 1.0%hi, 2.3%si, 0.0%st
The %id field is not described in the man page or the 'info top'. All other fields are described.
I think %id might be idle. But I am not sure.
This is the relevant section in the man page, were %id is not described
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.
us -- User CPU time
The time the CPU has spent running users' processes that are not niced.
sy -- System CPU time
The time the CPU has spent running the kernel and its processes.
ni -- Nice CPU time
The time the CPU has spent running users' proccess that have been niced.
wa -- iowait
Amount of time the CPU has been waiting for I/O to complete.
hi -- Hardware IRQ
The amount of time the CPU has been servicing hardware interrupts.
si -- Software Interrupts
The amount of time the CPU has been servicing software interrupts.
st -- Steal Time
The amount of CPU 'stolen' from this virtual machine by the hypervisor for other tasks (such as running another
virtual machine).
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/top
procps: /usr/bin/top
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: procps 1:3.2.8-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 3 18:50:31 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100427.1)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=de_DE.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: procps
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.