commit: 626e55e1aa2a23ccb8bd37ac0001a15b2483ea33
Author: Alessandro Barbieri <lssndrbarbieri <AT> gmail <DOT> com>
AuthorDate: Fri Mar 27 18:04:09 2020 +0000
Commit: Alessandro Barbieri <lssndrbarbieri <AT> gmail <DOT> com>
CommitDate: Fri Mar 27 18:04:09 2020 +0000
URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/guru.git/commit/?id=626e55e1
sys-process/iotop-c: longdescription
Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.96, Repoman-2.3.21
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Barbieri <lssndrbarbieri <AT> gmail.com>
sys-process/iotop-c/metadata.xml | 7 +++++--
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<name>Arthur Zamarin</name>
</maintainer>
<longdescription lang="en">
- Top-like UI used to show which process is using the I/O. Ported
from the
- Python language to C.
+Your Linux server is too slow or load is too high? One of the possible causes
of such symptoms may be high IO (input/output) waiting time, which basically
means that some of your processes need to read or write to a hard drive while
it is too slow and not ready yet, serving data for some other processes.
+
+Common practice is to use iostat -x in order to find out which block device
(hard drive) is slow, but such information is not always much helpful. It could
help you much more if you knew which process reads or writes the most data from
your slow disk, so you could possibly renice it using ionice or even kill it.
+
+IOTop will identify processes, which use high amount of input/output requests
on your machine. It is similar to the well known top utility, but instead of
showing you what consumes CPU the most, it lists processes by their IO
consumption. Inspired by iotop python script from Guillaume Chazarain, but
rewritten to C by Vyacheslav Trushkin so it now runs without python at all.
</longdescription>
<upstream>
<remote-id type="github">Tomas-M/iotop</remote-id>
