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top equivalent to show I/O per process (per second) on mac/osx

Is there a top-like (visual) tool which can show per process disk I/O (kb/sec)? The question was already asked at Monitor disk activity, á la top, or nettop (per process) on a Mac? and What'...
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What would cause a high `%wa` value when there is nothing performing heavy io?

I have a 92.3%wa value on top right now under linux and when I run iotop -a, I see nothing causing heavy io. What might be the cause of the large %wa value and how can I go about diagnosing this? The ...
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iotop complains "CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT not enabled in kernel" only for specific process

I'm trying to use iotop to determine whether the CPUs are waiting on I/O at any point for a specific program called bwa (it's a next-generation sequence alignment program). If I start iotop without ...
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Full list of top-like tool family for perfomance monitoring in linux: iftop iotop htop atop more? [closed]

Top-like utilities are extremely handful in my work and I want to make sure I am not missing any of them. Please extend the following list of performance monitoring (top-like) family of linux tools: ...
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Linux: Is there something similar to "top" for I/O?

My disk often is utilized, but top (and htop, a custom replacement) show nothing suspicious. Is there a way to sort processes by I/O (more specific: disk) utilization? EDIT Found out using iotop ...
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