Track processes IO load

When hard drives in server are extremely overloaded, and a lot of different services (Web,FTP,Databases,etc) work simultaneously, it’s very hard to understand what service exactly cause such load.

Here is simple solution how to track per process IO system load:

'top -mio

Command displays a lot of information about processes IO, but usually i look only to ‘PERCENT’ values.

top -mio output

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