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Loading...You can use cron task scheduling to get iotop to run every minute and log any I/O activity it detects.
Open this file for editing:
/etc/cron.d/iotop
And put the following into that file:
# Run iotop and log any detected activity.
* * * * * root iotop -botqqq --iter=3 >> /var/log/iotop
Save the file. That cron.d entry will cause iotop to run every minute, logging any I/O activity it finds to “/var/log/iotop”.
It takes three samples when it runs (five seconds apart), doesn’t log headers or summary information, and only logs processes with measured I/O activity.
After a minute take a look in /var/log. If the script ran as expected there should now be an “iostat” log there (though it may be an empty file if it didn’t find any I/O to log).
Tweak the command to your liking. If you want a different number of samples per minute change the “–iter” value. If you want I/O summaries printed when the script runs change “qqq” to “qq”.
