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One of the lines has CPU usage information represented like this:

Cpu(s): 87.3%us,  1.2%sy,  0.0%ni, 27.6%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st


us: user cpu time (or) % CPU time spent in user space sy: system cpu time (or) % CPU time spent in kernel space ni: user nice cpu time (or) % CPU time spent on low priority processes id: idle cpu time (or) % CPU time spent idle wa: io wait cpu time (or) % CPU time spent in wait (on disk) hi: hardware irq (or) % CPU time spent servicing/handling hardware interrupts si: software irq (or) % CPU time spent servicing/handling software interrupts st: steal time - - % CPU time in involuntary wait by virtual cpu while hypervisor is servicing another processor (or) % CPU time stolen from a virtual machine