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

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?

Solution

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

    hiq - irq: servicing interrupts
siq - softirq: servicing softirqs