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What are the 'hiq' and 'siq' fields in dstat cpu output

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dstat CPU metrics have two fields named hiq and siq. What do these fields represent? Are they some sort of hardware interrupts and software interrupts?

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superselector Avatar asked Mar 22 '11 17:03

superselector


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They are from /proc/stat (http://www.linuxhowtos.org/System/procstat.htm):

hiq - irq: servicing interrupts
siq - softirq: servicing softirqs
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Olson Avatar answered Nov 01 '22 00:11

Olson