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Monitor disk io on linux server with iotop and cron

Recently my server was giving notifications of disk io activity rising above a certain threshold at regular intervals. My first guess was that some cronjob task was causing that. So I tried to check various cron tasks to find out which task or process was causing the io burst. On servers specially its always a good practice to monitor resource usage to make sure that websites work fast and well. However...