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My Ubuntu system is occasionally becoming very sluggish. I'm running many things simultaneously and it's very difficult to tell which program is the culprit.

I suspect that the sluggishness is due to disk activity since the CPU usage is consistently under 50% on each of the 4 cores of the CPU, and over 30% of the 6GB of RAM are free.

Is there a tool that can show me in real time the number of disk IO operations per second and the amount of data read/written per second? Can all this info be broken down and displayed per process?

GJ.
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I can recommend iotop, which shows you exactly disk-read and disk-write in bytes per seconds, per process. You can install it with sudo apt-get install iotop in Ubuntu.

Tronic
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Try atop. Start it and press d to show disk-related output.

cYrus
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You can try Saidar. 

apt-get install saidar

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Alternatively you could try one of these: http://www.upubuntu.com/2012/06/list-of-best-system-monitoring.html

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You could try Stacer

sudo apt install stacer

It looks like a good option if you want/need a graphical interface. It has many other features. Screenshot

angelgarcan
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