Takahisa's Weblog » iotop http://takahisa.info weblog of lifetips? Thu, 27 May 2010 08:51:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 file IO tuning, iotop http://takahisa.info/2008/09/05/file-io-tuning-iotop/ http://takahisa.info/2008/09/05/file-io-tuning-iotop/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:10:00 +0000 admin http://takahisa.info/?p=64 To check File IO, this iotop is one of best solution.

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“Linux has always been able to show how much I/O was going on (the bi and bo columns of the vmstat 1 command).

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 ≥ 2.5 and a Linux kernel ≥ 2.6.20.”

 

For Suse 11

Simply type “yum install iotop”.

 

Iotop’s homepage
http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/

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