What's that displayed on 'top'?

From: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe (tshepang_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/28/05

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    Hello,
    On the CPU row of top, there's various stuff displayed:
    'us' (which I assume is CPU cycles consumed by processes owned by the
    user running top), 'sy' (which I assume is those owned by root), 'id'
    (which I assume means idle), and there is 'wa', 'hi', 'si' whose
    meaning I don't know.
    I checked on the manpage without success... Could anyone tell me what
    these last 3 (wa, hi, si) mean.
    Thanks...

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