- About iotop : Simple top-like I/O monitor
- It comes from “iotop-0.3.2” package.
- Path: /usr/bin/iotop
Examples:
1. To see the IO usage
| $ iotop |
2. To run on non-interactive mode
| $ iotop -b $ iotop –batch |
To set the number of interactions before quitting
$ iotop -N 10
$ iotop –iter=10
To set the delay between interactions
| $ iotop -d 10 $ iotop –delay=10 |
To monitor particular processes
| $ iotop -p 1234 2345 3456 $ iotop –pid=1234 |
To monitor a list of users
| $ iotop -u mike mark $ iotop –user=mike |
To show only processes
| $ iotop -P $ iotop –processes |
To Show accumulated I/O instead of bandwidth
| $ iotop -a $ iotop –accumulated |
To Use kilobytes instead of a human friendly unit
| $ iotop -k $ iotop –kilobytes |
To add a time stamp on each line
| $ iotop -t $ iotop –time |
To suppress some lines of header
| $ iotop -q $ iotop –quiet |
Related Commands: ionice, top, vmstat
