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btop vs Iotop

A side-by-side look at btop and Iotop. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

btop

btop

System & Hardware

btop is a system monitoring utility for Linux systems, providing an interactive interface to monitor CPU/RAM/swap usage, network activity, disk I/O, and more in real time.

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Iotop

Iotop

System & Hardware

Iotop is a Linux program that provides detailed monitoring of disk I/O usage by processes. It shows a table of current I/O usage with columns for process IDs, process names, type of I/O, bandwidth used, and more.

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