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Iotop

Troubleshooting 

Netlink error: Operation not permitted (1)

The Linux kernel interfaces that iotop relies on now require root privileges
or the NET_ADMIN capability. This change occurred because a security issue
(CVE-2011-2494) was found that allows leakage of sensitive data across user
boundaries. If you require the ability to run iotop as a non-root user, please
configure sudo to allow you to run iotop as root.

Please do not file bugs on iotop about this.

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