Issued:

2012-02-20

Updated:

2012-02-20

RHEA-2012:0224 - New package: iotop

Synopsis

New package: iotop

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory (none)

Topic

A new iotop package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The iotop package provides a program with a UI similar to the top utility. The program watches I/O usage information output by the Linux kernel and displays a table of current I/O usage by processes on the system.

This enhancement update adds the iotop package to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. (BZ#545526)

All users who require iotop are advised to install this new package.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• iotop-0.4.3-4.el5.noarch.rpm
• iotop-0.4.3-4.el5.src.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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