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.
![iotop centos linux](https://wiki.jolt.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Screen-Shot-2013-12-19-at-15.35.27.png)
Steps for Installing iotop in RHEL, CentOS and Fedora Linux
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- First, make sure to update the Linux kernel to the latest version.
yum update kernel
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- Then, install the Python modules.
yum install python python-ctypes
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- Install iotop using the yum package installer by typing the following command:
yum install iotop
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- Run iotop:
iotop