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 >= 2.7 and a Linux kernel >= 2.6.20 with the CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT CONFIG_TASKSTATS, CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING and CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS options on.

To run a local version of iotop:

$ ./iotop.py

The documentation is available in the man page:

$ man ./iotop.8

To install iotop, you should use a package provided by your distribution. If you really want to install this version of iotop on your system, do (as root):

./setup.py install

-- Guillaume Chazarain [email protected] http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop