Good Monitoring Tools
From JoeHacker
Everyone knows about the top command. Here are some of my favorite and command options.
Monitor hard drive activity and how may megabytes are read/written every 5 seconds.
iostat -m 5
A better top command
htop
Command to show only processes writing to the hard drive.
iotop -o
Shows network activity on eth0
iftop -i eth0
Another useful top command
atop