iotop -P

Category: Monitoring & Observability

iotop -P

Show I/O per process, not per thread

Aggregates I/O at the process level instead of listing each thread separately, cutting noise on multi-threaded applications. The default view shows threads, which can look like duplicated entries. Combine with -o to keep only the busy ones.
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