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Postby viking60 » 22 Oct 2012, 02:55

I like the "Top" tools so I use iotop too. Iotop is a livetool that monitors the disk activity.
Iftop Monitors the Network trafic anf htop monitors CPU and RAM.
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Re: iotop

Postby rolf » 22 Oct 2012, 03:10

Thanks, that will be useful. Looks like iotop -o is the more interesting output for me to see. :s

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Re: iotop

Postby viking60 » 25 Oct 2012, 01:08

Yes I do not get what all the other info is for either; so iotop -o it is here too :-D
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