an htop-like tool to display disk activity in linux

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I am looking for a Linux command-line tool that would report the disk IO activity  Something similar to htop would be really cool   Has someone heard of something like that

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It is not htop-like  but you could use atop  However  to display disk activity per process  it needs a kernel patch  available from the site   These kernel patches are now obsoleted  only to show per-process network activity an optional module is provided

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Use collectl which has extensive process I O monitoring including monitoring threads   Be warned that there are I O counters for I O being written to cache and I O going to disk   collectl reports them separately   If you re not careful you can misinterpret the data  See http   collectl sourceforge net Process html  Of course  it shows a lot more than just process stats because you d want one tool to provide everything rather than a bunch of different one that displays everything in different formats  right

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Use collectl which has extensive process I O monitoring including monitoring threads   Be warned that there are I O counters for I O being written to cache and I O going to disk   collectl reports them separately   If you re not careful you can misinterpret the data  See http   collectl sourceforge net Process html  Of course  it shows a lot more than just process stats because you d want one tool to provide everything rather than a bunch of different one that displays everything in different formats  right

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You could use iotop  It doesn t rely on a kernel patch  It Works with stock Ubuntu kernel  There is a package for it in the Ubuntu repos  You can install it using   sudo apt-get install iotop

User · Answer

It is not htop-like  but you could use atop  However  to display disk activity per process  it needs a kernel patch  available from the site   These kernel patches are now obsoleted  only to show per-process network activity an optional module is provided

User · Answer

You could use iotop  It doesn t rely on a kernel patch  It Works with stock Ubuntu kernel  There is a package for it in the Ubuntu repos  You can install it using   sudo apt-get install iotop

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nmon shows a nice display of disk activity per device   It is available for linux      Disk I O        proc diskstats         all data is Kbytes per second                                                                 DiskName Busy  Read WriteKB 0           25          50           75       100                                                          sda        0     0 0  127 9                                                                                                            sda1       1     0 0  127 9                                                                                                            sda2       0     0 0    0 0                                                                                                            sda5       0     0 0    0 0                                                                                                            sdb       61   385 6 9708 7 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWR                                                                            sdb1      61   385 6 9708 7 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWR                                                                            sdc       52   353 6 9686 7 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWR                                                                                sdc1      53   353 6 9686 7 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWR                                                                                sdd       56   359 6 9800 6 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW                                                                               sdd1      56   359 6 9800 6 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW                                                                               sde       57   371 6 9574 9 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWR                                                                              sde1      57   371 6 9574 9 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWR                                                                              sdf       53   371 6 9740 7 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWR                                                                                sdf1      53   371 6 9740 7 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWR                                                                                md0        0  1726 0 2093 6  disk busy not available

User · Answer

It is not htop-like  but you could use atop  However  to display disk activity per process  it needs a kernel patch  available from the site   These kernel patches are now obsoleted  only to show per-process network activity an optional module is provided

User · Answer

It is not htop-like  but you could use atop  However  to display disk activity per process  it needs a kernel patch  available from the site   These kernel patches are now obsoleted  only to show per-process network activity an optional module is provided

User · Answer

nmon shows a nice display of disk activity per device   It is available for linux      Disk I O        proc diskstats         all data is Kbytes per second                                                                 DiskName Busy  Read WriteKB 0           25          50           75       100                                                          sda        0     0 0  127 9                                                                                                            sda1       1     0 0  127 9                                                                                                            sda2       0     0 0    0 0                                                                                                            sda5       0     0 0    0 0                                                                                                            sdb       61   385 6 9708 7 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWR                                                                            sdb1      61   385 6 9708 7 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWR                                                                            sdc       52   353 6 9686 7 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWR                                                                                sdc1      53   353 6 9686 7 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWR                                                                                sdd       56   359 6 9800 6 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW                                                                               sdd1      56   359 6 9800 6 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW                                                                               sde       57   371 6 9574 9 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWR                                                                              sde1      57   371 6 9574 9 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWR                                                                              sdf       53   371 6 9740 7 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWR                                                                                sdf1      53   371 6 9740 7 WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWR                                                                                md0        0  1726 0 2093 6  disk busy not available

User · Answer

You could use iotop  It doesn t rely on a kernel patch  It Works with stock Ubuntu kernel  There is a package for it in the Ubuntu repos  You can install it using   sudo apt-get install iotop

User · Answer

Use collectl which has extensive process I O monitoring including monitoring threads   Be warned that there are I O counters for I O being written to cache and I O going to disk   collectl reports them separately   If you re not careful you can misinterpret the data  See http   collectl sourceforge net Process html  Of course  it shows a lot more than just process stats because you d want one tool to provide everything rather than a bunch of different one that displays everything in different formats  right

User · Answer

You could use iotop  It doesn t rely on a kernel patch  It Works with stock Ubuntu kernel  There is a package for it in the Ubuntu repos  You can install it using   sudo apt-get install iotop

User · Answer

Use collectl which has extensive process I O monitoring including monitoring threads   Be warned that there are I O counters for I O being written to cache and I O going to disk   collectl reports them separately   If you re not careful you can misinterpret the data  See http   collectl sourceforge net Process html  Of course  it shows a lot more than just process stats because you d want one tool to provide everything rather than a bunch of different one that displays everything in different formats  right

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