LinuxCommandLibrary

iotop

Display a table of current I/O usage by processes or threads.

TLDR

Start top-like I/O monitor

$ sudo iotop
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Show only processes or threads actually doing I/O
$ sudo iotop --only
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Show I/O usage in non-interactive mode
$ sudo iotop --batch
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Show only I/O usage of processes (default is to show all threads)
$ sudo iotop --processes
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Show I/O usage of given PID(s)
$ sudo iotop --pid=[PID]
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Show I/O usage of a given user
$ sudo iotop --user=[user]
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Show accumulated I/O instead of bandwidth
$ sudo iotop --accumulated
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