iotop

simple top-like I/O monitor
  http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/
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  3 reviews



Iotop does for I/O usage what top(1) does for CPU usage. It watches I/O usage information output by the Linux kernel and displays a table of current I/O usage by processes on the system. It is handy for answering the question "Why is the disk churning so much?".

iotop can only run under a Linux 2.6.20 or later kernel built with the CONFIG_TASKSTATS, CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT, CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING and CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS build config options on.
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drinktea 4 years ago

Great tool for finding out what app is excesively using your disk. In my case it was older version of firefox with broken disk cache management.

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alaint 10 years ago

must have

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dogweather 11 years ago

A great app - I use it nearly as much as top.