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– in: The number of interrupts per second, including the clock
– cs: The number of context switches per second
CPU: These are percentages of total CPU time.
– us: Time spent running non-kernel code (user time, including nice time)
– sy: Time spent running kernel code (system time)
– id: Time spent idle (prior to Linux 2.5.41, included IO-wait time)
– wa: Time spent waiting for IO (prior to Linux 2.5.41, appeared as zero)
8.2.6 The sar command
The sar command is part of the Sysstat set of utilities. It is available from the
following Web site:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sebastien.godard/
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