iotop

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

More information.

• Start top-like I/O monitor:

sudo iotop

• Show only processes or threads actually doing I/O:

sudo iotop --only

• Show I/O usage in non-interactive mode:

sudo iotop --batch

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

sudo iotop --processes

• Show I/O usage of given PID(s):

sudo iotop --pid={PID}

• Show I/O usage of a given user:

sudo iotop --user={user}

• Show accumulated I/O instead of bandwidth:

sudo iotop --accumulated

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