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We've compiled a list of 4 free and paid alternatives to Iotop. The primary competitors include htop, glances. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Iotop and Resource Monitor, Atop. Also you can look at other similar options here: About.


htop
Free Open Source

an interactive process viewer for Unix

glances
Free Open Source

Glances is a CLI curses based monitoring tool for GNU/Linux and BSD OS.

Resource Monitor is a system application in Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Atop
Free Open Source

An advanced interactive monitor for Linux-systems to view the load on system-level and...

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

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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 (or Python = 2.4 with the ctypes module) and a Linux kernel = 2.6.20 with the TASK_DELAY_ACCT CONFIG_TASKSTATS, TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING and CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS options on.

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