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Monitor Disk I/O with iotop in Linux

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Shahriar Shovon
May 6, 2019

iotop is an interactive I/O monitoring tool on Linux just like htop. With iotop, you can easily monitor disk read and write bandwidth usage for each running processed on Linux. In this article, I am going to show you how to install iotop on popular Linux distributions and how to use iotop to monitor disk read and write bandwidth usage per running process.

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Shahriar Shovon

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