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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They are from /proc/stat
(http://www.linuxhowtos.org/System/procstat.htm):
hiq - irq: servicing interrupts
siq - softirq: servicing softirqs