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  1. #1
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    whats "user" and "system" in the top output?

    as the title suggests, what is "user" and "system" in top?

    it seems to spike on my vps up to 100% quite often, makes load go up to unhealthy amounts.

    thanks!

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    Well, if that's the case, depending on the process, you should investigate that as they are eating CPU. 100% CPU.
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  3. #3
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    ok if i look at the "top" processes, its practically empty. yet load shoots up to 5-12, sometimes higher. barely anything going on on the server-- in fact abotu 2 days ago there was a complete outage due to a faulty cpanel update that corrupted my dns... so basically the server was serving absolutely nothing, yet my load was at like 3-5 the entire period.

    your best bet-- do you think this has something to do with the node, or my specific VPS?

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    Quote Originally Posted by chamelion
    as the title suggests, what is "user" and "system" in top?
    From the vmstat man page:

    Code:
    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, this includes IO-wait time.
       wa: Time spent waiting for IO. Prior to Linux 2.5.41, shown as zero.
    "user" -> CPU time running code in user-space
    "sys" -> CPU time running code in kernel space

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