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Ubuntu: tool for displaying disk activity in general and by process

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Mar 15, 202610991 views

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My Ubuntu system is occasionally becoming very sluggish. I'm running many things simultaneously and it's very difficult to tell which program is the culprit. I suspect that the sluggishness is due to disk activity since the CPU usage is consistently under 50% on each of the 4 cores of the CPU, and …

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I can recommend iotop, which shows you exactly disk-read and disk-write in bytes per seconds, per process. You can install it with in Ubuntu.

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