tldr/pages/common/iotop.md

iotop

Display a table of current I/O usage by processes or threads. More information: https://linux.die.net/man/1/iotop.

• Start top-like I/O monitor:

iotop

• Show only processes or threads actually doing I/O:

iotop -o

• Show I/O usage in non-interactive mode:

iotop -b

• Show only I/O usage of processes(Default is to show all threads):

iotop -P

• Show I/O usage of given PID(s):

iotop -p {{PID}}

• Show I/O usage of a given user:

iotop -u {{user}}

• Show accumulated I/O instead of bandwidth:

iotop -a