# iotop



`iotop` is a very neat tool showing the processes which do the most
i/o in a `top`-like manner.

Again having fun with SLES:

SLES-10:
    
    # rpm -i /tmp/iotop-0.3.2-1.1.x86_64.rpm 
    warning: iotop-0.3.2-1.1.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID ee454f98
    error: Failed dependencies:
	python >= 2.5 is needed by iotop-0.3.2-1.1.x86_64

*Goes off and installs SLES-11*

SLES-11:

    # rpm -i
    warning: /tmp/iotop-0.3.2-1.1.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID ee454f98
    error: Failed dependencies:
	python < 2.6 is needed by iotop-0.3.2-1.1.x86_64

> Nooooo!

I finally made a symlink from `/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/iotop`
to `/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/iotop` which did the trick.

Oh, and you will need a kernel version > 2.6.20 to have it work.