iotop
SafeFind the disk I/O hog
iotop -o
top for disk I/O (-o hides idle processes) — the tool for 'high load, idle CPU' I/O-wait mysteries.
Examples
iotop -bo -n 3Three batch samples
Syntax
iotop [-o] [-b -n count]
Before you run it
Read only.
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