Iotop vs psutil
A side-by-side look at Iotop and psutil. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
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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psutil
Development
psutil is a cross-platform library for retrieving information on running processes and system utilization in Python. It allows you to easily monitor CPU, memory, disk, network and other system resources.
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