Installing iotop in Linux
Background
Frequent Linux users have most likely used top at some point in order to view a process list. A similar program, iotop, monitors disk read, write, swap and I/O for each running process, but is not used as much.

Steps for Installing iotop in RHEL, CentOS and Fedora Linux
- First, make sure to update the Linux kernel to the latest version.
- Then, install the Python modules.
- Install iotop using the yum package installer by typing the following command:
- Run iotop:
yum update kernel
yum install python python-ctypes
yum install iotop
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