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The iotop command is top like utility for disk I/O. It watches I/O usage information output by the Linux kernel (requires v2.6.20 or later) and displays a table of current I/O usage by processes or threads on the system.

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Some process is eating free disk space

Some process is continuously eating my free space. Once it dropped to 0 bytes, I freed up some space by deleting few media files, but then it again started to reduce the freed space. I used iotop to findout which process is using disk, and it only…
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What is causing this disk I/O spike?

I have a Raspberry Pi 2 with Ubuntu 14.04 installed and I'm experiencing a strange problem. I'm attempting to use sbuild to build a Debian package and everything works well enough for the first few seconds... ubuntu@ubuntu:/tmp/pkg/pkg-0.0.1$…
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My media storage HDD is constantly spinning in my laptop even when I'm not using that

My laptop has two drives: An SSD for the operating system (Kubuntu 20.10) and an HDD for media storage. Under windows my HDD only spins up when it's necessary but under linux it's spinning constantly and never spins down even if I am not using that…
Róbert Lassú
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Strange path or folder on hacked vps

My vps was confirmed hacked, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Thanks for answering in my post My previous post). Now I have created new vps and move my site to new VPS. But I don't delete my hacked vps, i preserve it to learn why i can got hacked. My Question is :…
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High IO> on EVERYTHING when trying to load games

So I'm new to Ubuntu and whenever I try to load a game (so far it's happened with any Linux game that I've tried) it goes fine for a bit, then the computer starts freezing up and I can't do anything. Watching iotop while this happens the IO> on…
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kworker using all my IOs, Postgres slow

I have 2 SSDs set up in RAID 0 configuration with a single volume on them that I've been using without problems for 3 months straight to run a PostgreSQL database. Suddenly, today, the DB got really slow. I used to run multiple queries on huge…
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A process that almost exclusively reads and writes stalls when kworker wakes up according to iotop

I have a 30GB file on an SSD disk and a process that continuously in a loop reads and writes from/to random locations in the file. According to IO top, the process consumes almost max read and write IO (40MB/s read, 120MB/s writes, ~95% IO) for ~30…
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iotop crashes on jetson nano

I am trying to install iotop on jetson nano, but I get a crash. How can I fix it? Are there some alternatives to iotop? stiv@nano:~$ sudo apt install iotop Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The…
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High io "python3 /~.pid -x -b"

When I run iotop, I get information that python3 /~.pid -x -b is consuming high io. What is that and how to fix this? Thanks for your help.
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Slow start up from cold start (20 minutes+), need help with logging all filesystem access with iotop

Well in my development suit I notice that currently the boot up of the full suit takes a long (too long) time - about 20 to 25 minutes before I can actually use the applications. The far majority (15-20) minutes it is busy "after" booting ubuntu.…
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