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iotop

Display a table of current I/O usage by processes or threads. More information: https://linux.die.net/man/1/iotop.

  • Start top-like I/O monitor:

iotop

  • Show only processes or threads actually doing I/O:

iotop -o

  • Show I/O usage in non-interactive mode:

iotop -b

  • Show only I/O usage of processes(Default is to show all threads):

iotop -P

  • Show I/O usage of given PID(s):

iotop -p {{PID}}

  • Show I/O usage of a given user:

iotop -u {{user}}

  • Show accumulated I/O instead of bandwidth:

iotop -a