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iotop — Display a table of current I/O usage by processes or threads. More information: <https://manned.org/

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Problem

How to use the iotop command: Display a table of current I/O usage by processes or threads. More information: <https://manned.org/iotop>.

Solution

iotop — Display a table of current I/O usage by processes or threads. More information: <https://manned.org/iotop>.

Start top-like I/O monitor:

sudo iotop

Show only processes or threads actually doing I/O:

sudo iotop {{[-o|--only]}}

Show I/O usage in non-interactive mode:

sudo iotop {{[-b|--batch]}}

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

sudo iotop {{[-P|--processes]}}

Show I/O usage of given PID(s):

sudo iotop {{[-p|--pid]}} {{PID}}

Show I/O usage of a given user:

sudo iotop {{[-u|--user]}} {{user}}

Show accumulated I/O instead of bandwidth:

sudo iotop {{[-a|--accumulated]}}

Code Snippets

Start top-like I/O monitor

sudo iotop

Show only processes or threads actually doing I/O

sudo iotop {{[-o|--only]}}

Show I/O usage in non-interactive mode

sudo iotop {{[-b|--batch]}}

Show only I/O usage of processes (default is to show all threads)

sudo iotop {{[-P|--processes]}}

Show I/O usage of given PID(s)

sudo iotop {{[-p|--pid]}} {{PID}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/iotop

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