Iotop

The system administrator can utilize Iotop to find out the Input/output processes, which take place on the disk. During the sampling period, every process/thread in the system reads and writes the columns of I/O bandwidth, which is displayed by Iotop. For monitoring the processes and for displaying them, the Iotop tool needs kernel accounting function.It is normally written in Python. The main functionality of Iotop is that it tracks the disk usage hogs, which slow down a system with a plenty of available disk space and memory. It also provides an easy usage, where the users can run it from a particular terminal.