The iotop utility provides an easy-to-use interface for monitoring swap and disk I/O on a per-process basis.
Watching the disk
Sometimes you get more disk activity on your system than you would like. Maybe you saw the problem by...
Here we look at the basic scripting options for dstat as well as an overview of its external modules.
All-powerful
Well, not that. But it can feel a little like that when you fiddle with some more advanced aspects of dstat....
For a flexible reporting tool that can yield information ranging from CPU use to the top I/O-consuming process look no further than dstat.
All-seeing
Well, maybe not “all-seeing”, but it made for a catchy header. Though dstat...