iotop Command Examples

Display a table of current I/O usage by processes or threads. More information: https://manned.org/iotop.

• Start top-like I/O monitor:

sudo iotop

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

sudo iotop {{[-o|--only]}}

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

sudo iotop {{[-b|--batch]}}

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

sudo iotop {{[-P|--processes]}}

• Show I/O usage of given PID(s):

sudo iotop {{[-p|--pid]}} {{PID}}

• Show I/O usage of a given user:

sudo iotop {{[-u|--user]}} {{user}}

• Show accumulated I/O instead of bandwidth:

sudo iotop {{[-a|--accumulated]}}