I/Otop utility

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What is iotop

Linux has always been able to show how much I/O was going on (the bi and bo columns of the vmstat 1 command).

Iotop is a Python program with a top like UI used to show of behalf of which process is the I/O going on. It requires Python ≥ 2.5 and a Linux kernel ≥ 2.6.20.

Licenses

* Iotop is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Download

* Freshmeat project page to stay informed: http://freshmeat.net/projects/iotop.
* git clone git://repo.or.cz/iotop.git