Monitoring disk I/O with iotop
Every administrator knows that a system can begin to slow down as a result of heavy disk I/O activities. However, in the role of a troubleshooter you will probably want to know which processes or (in the case of multi-user systems) which users are the culprits that and it is for this reason, you will want to turn to iotop—a tool that shows a list of the most I/O intensive processes in real time in a top-like interface.
To begin with, you will need to install iotop by typing:
# yum install iotop
The download is only small, and to start a discovery session, simply use the following command:
# iotop
Running iotop without any arguments will result in a list of all existing processes regardless of their disk I/O activities, ...
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