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iotop

Rank processes by I/O. toybox

On Linux

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Linux

from the toybox, 0BSD

Rank processes by I/O. Cursor LEFT/RIGHT to change sort, UP/DOWN move list, space to force update, R to reverse sort, Q to exit.

iotop [-AaKObq] [-n NUMBER] [-d SECONDS] [-p PID,] [-u USER,]
Show 15 options
-AAll I/O, not just disk
-aAccumulated I/O (not percentage)
-HShow threads
-KKilobytes
-kFallback sort FIELDS (default -[D]IO,-ETIME,-PID)
-mMaximum number of tasks to show
-OOnly show processes doing I/O
-oShow FIELDS (default PID,PR,USER,[D]READ,[D]WRITE,SWAP,[D]IO,COMM)
-sSort by field number (0-X, default 6)
-bBatch mode (no tty)
-d SECONDSDelay SECONDS between each cycle (default 3)
-n NUMBERExit after NUMBER iterations
-pShow these PIDs
-uShow these USERs
-qQuiet (no header lines)

Several platforms

from tldr-pages, CC BY 4.0

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

Start top-like I/O monitor

sudo iotopIdentify

Show only processes or threads actually doing I/O

sudo iotop --onlyIdentify

Show I/O usage in non-interactive mode

sudo iotop --batchIdentify

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

sudo iotop --processesIdentify

Show I/O usage of given PID(s)

sudo iotop --pid process_idIdentify

Show I/O usage of a given user

sudo iotop --user userIdentify

Show accumulated I/O instead of bandwidth

sudo iotop --accumulatedIdentify