{"id":9195,"date":"2022-07-27T12:51:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T12:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/kb\/?p=9195"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:02:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:02:47","slug":"install-iotop-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/kb\/install-iotop-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Iotop in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are using or working on Linux regularly, you probably have used the top before to see a process list. However, you may not use top, which is similar in some ways to the top, but monitors disk read, write, swap, and I\/O for each running process.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Follow the Installation steps<\/h5>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RHEL, CentOS and Fedora Linux<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First of all, you must update your Linux kernel to the most recent version:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>yum update kernel<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now you need to install the Python modules:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>yum install python python-ctypes<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, Using the yum package installer, we\u2019ll install iotop by using the following command:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>yum install iotop<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To run iotop, simply run:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>iotop<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this way, you can install your iotop in Linux.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We hope that you now have a good understanding of Installing iotop in Linux. 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